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THE

ORATIONS

OF

MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO

LITERALLY TRANSLATED BY

C.D. YONGE, M.A.

FELLOW OF THE ROYAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, ETC.

VOL. IV.

CONTAINING

THE FOURTEEN ORATIONS AGAINST MARCUS ANTONIUS; TO WHICH ARE APPENDEDTHE TREATISE ON RHETORICAL INVENTION; THE ORATOR; TOPICS; ONRHETORICAL PARTITIONS, ETC.

1903

[Reprinted from Stereotype plates.]

CONTENTS.

The Fourteen Orations against M. Antonius, called Philippics:—

The First Philippic

The Second Philippic

The Third Philippic

The Fourth Philippic

The Fifth Philippic

The Sixth Philippic

The Seventh Philippic

The Eighth Philippic

The Ninth Philippic

The Tenth Philippic

The Eleventh Philippic

The Twelfth Philippic

The Thirteenth Philippic

The Fourteenth Philippic

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TREATISE ON RHETORICAL INVENTION:—

Book I.

Book II.

THE ORATOR

TREATISE on TOPICS

A DIALOGUE CONCERNING ORATORICAL PARTITIONS

TREATISE ON THE BEST STYLE OF ORATORS

THE FOURTEEN ORATIONS OF M.T. CICERO AGAINST MARCUS ANTONIUS, CALLEDPHILIPPICS.

THE FIRST PHILIPPIC.

THE ARGUMENT

When Julius, or, as he is usually called by Cicero Caius Caesar wasslain on the 15th of March, A.U.C. 710, B.C. 44 Marcus Antoniuswas his colleague in the consulship, and he, being afraid that theconspirators might murder him too, (and it is said that they haddebated among themselves whether they would or no) concealed himselfon that day and fortified his house, till perceiving that nothingwas intended against him, he ventured to appear in public the dayfollowing. Lepidus was in the suburbs of Rome with a regular army,ready to depart for the government of Spain, which had been assignedto him with a part of Gaul. In the night, after Caesar's death heoccupied the forum with his troops and thought of making himselfmaster of the city, but Antonius dissuaded him from that idea and wonhim over to his views by giving his daughter in marriage to Lepidus'sson, and by assisting him to seize on the office of Pontifex Maximus,which was vacant by Caesar's death.

To the conspirators he professed friendship, sent his son among themas a hostage of his sincerity, and so deluded them, that Brutus suppedwith Lepidus, and Cassius with Antonius. By these means he got them toconsent to his passing a decree for the confirmation of all Caesar'sacts, without describing or naming them more precisely. At last, onthe occasion of Caesar's public funeral, he contrived so to inflame thepopulace against the conspirators, that Brutus and Cassius had somedifficulty in defending their houses and their lives and he graduallyalarmed them so much, and worked so cunningly on their fears that theyall quitted Rome. Cicero also left Rome, disapproving greatly of thevacillation and want of purpo

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