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THE SIXTH ORATION OF M. T. CICERO AGAINST MARCUS ANTONIUS. CALLED ALSO THE SIXTH PHILIPPIC. ADDRESSED TO THE PEOPLE.
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The tribune of the people was borne along in a chariot, lictors crowned with
laurel preceded him; among whom, on an open litter, was carried an actress; whom
honorable men, citizens of the different municipalities, coming out from their
towns under compulsion to meet him, saluted not by the name by which she was
well known on the stage, but by that of Volumnia.1 A car followed
full of pimps; then a lot of debauched companions; and then his mother, utterly
neglected, followed the mistress of her profligate son, as if she had been her
daughter-in-law. O the disastrous fecundity of that miserable woman! With the
marks of such wickedness as this did that fellow stamp every municipality, and
prefecture, and colony, and, in short, the whole of Italy.
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