Philippics, 1. Cicero translated by C. D. Yonge. «About This Work | Cic. Phil. 1 | Cic. Phil. 2 | About This Work». 1I. Before, O conscript fathers, I say those things. Cicero (Marcus Tullius, –43 BCE), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, about whom we know more than we do of any other Roman. Philippics: Marcus Tullius Cicero: Last months: of August, and his 14 Philippic orations (so called in imitation of Demosthenes’ speeches against Philip II of.
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Let us begin at the beginning.
Although there was no one of those men who were with you at that time, who did not think that I ought to be spared. What did the people of Anagnia do?
Table of contents Cic. That I have never at any time been wanting to the claims that either the republic or my friends had upon me; but nevertheless that in all the different sorts of composition on which I have employed myself, during my leisure hours, I have always endeavoured to make my labours and my writings such as to be some advantage to our youth, and some credit to the Roman name.
Philippics
But I will take another opportunity to speak about the Leontine and the Campanian district; where he has stolen lands from the republic to pollute them with most infamous owners. But how great and philippcs barbaric a procession is yours! But how could it occur to you to recal to our recollection that you had been educated in the house of Publius Lentulus? What men are so clownish as not, when they have once beheld them, to think that they have reaped the greatest enjoyment that life can give?
Can any one then fear a man who was as timid as this man in upholding his party, that is, in upholding his own fortunes?
Cicero, Philippics
No one is accused under those laws; there is no one whom we think likely to be so accused. Meantime Sextus Pompeius, who was at the head of a considerable army in Spain, addressed letters to the consuls proposing terms of accommodation, which after some debate, and some important modifications, were agreed to, and he quitted Spain, and came as far as Marseilles on his road towards Rome. O ye immortal gods, they are men whose birthdays we have still to learn. No one has ever made me his heir except he was a friend of mine, in order that my grief of mind for his loss might be accompanied also with some gain, if it was to be considered as such.
He was occupied in war; he glutted himself with the slaughter of citizens who bore no resemblance to himself. For you thought the camp the only refuge on earth for indigence, and debt, and profligacy,—for all men, in short, who were in a state of utter ruin.
And you will order, I suppose, all those regularly-passed decrees to be engraved on brazen tablets. But all those things I do not change, I do not meddle pphilippics. He says, that he does so as a guard. You must unquestionably allow, that the cause of that ruinous war existed in your person.
The forum will be surrounded, every entrance of it will be blocked up; armed men will be placed in garrison, as it were, at many points. For it seemed to be cidero discreditable thing for me myself, that I should venture to return into that city from philppics Brutus was departing, and that I should be willing to live safely in a place where he could not. And we see that, even in the play, the very man who said.
Philippics 7-14
But still, if his design at first was blameable, his consistency and firmness were praiseworthy. Cicro there can not be more than three or four left. But a man whom you never even saw, Lucius Rubrius, of Casinum, made you his heir.
That great inheritance from Lucius Rubrius, and that other from Lucius Turselius, had not yet come to him. Ought you not to be put in confinement? When about the tenth hour of the day he had arrived at Red Rocks, he skulked into a little petty wine-shop, and, hiding there, kept on drinking till evening.
Philippicae – Wikipedia
Yes, your consulship, forsooth, is a salutary one for Edition: To-day Antonius is not coming down. For what did I determine, what did I contrive, what did I do, that was not determined, contrived, or done, by the counsel and authority and in accordance with the sentiments of this order? But I, as if I had to contend against Marcus Crassus, with whom I have had many severe struggles, and not with a most worthless gladiator, while complaining in dignified language of the state of the republic, did not say one word which could be called personal.
And when they sought to recover those things by force of arms which belonged to them cciero the laws, who was it most natural— although in unjust and unnatural proceedings what can there be that is natural?
And do you dare taunt me with philippis name of that man whose friend you admit that I was, and whose assassin you confess yourself?
A house which for a long time no one could behold, no one could pass by without tears! For one must not demand prudence from a man who is never sober.
Some other things that were done were the acts of Dolabella alone; but, if his colleague had not been absent, would, I believe, have been done by both of them in concert. Or did he wish to contend with me in a rivalry of eloquence?