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But how constantly does he harp on the expression “the consul
Antonius!” This amounts to say “that most debauched
consul,” “that most worthless of men, the consul.”
For what else is. Antonius? For if any dignity were implied the name, then, I
imagine, your grandfather would sometime have called himself “the
consul Antonius.” But he never did. My colleague too, your own uncle,
would have call himself so. Unless you are the only Antonius. But I pass over
those offenses which have no peculiar connection with the part you took in
harassing the republic; I return to that in which you bore so principal a
share,—that is, to the civil war; and it is mainly owing to you that
that was originated, and brought to a head, and carried on.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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