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Updated: May 29, 2025
Among those who at Cicero's period dealt with politics in Rome all of whom, no doubt, spoke of the Republic as the vessel of State which was to be defended by all persons there were four classes. These were they who simply desired the plunder of the State the Catilines, the Sullas of the day, and the Antonys; men such as Verres had been, and Fonteius, and Autronius.
What an exordium with which to begin a forensic pleading before a bench of judges composed of Prætors, Ædiles, and coming Consuls! And this at a time, too, when men's minds were still full of Sulla's power; when some were thinking that they too might be Sullas; while the idea was still strong that a few nobles ought to rule the Roman Empire for their own advantage and their own luxury!
Of the fortune, since it was now in Mark Anthony's hands, you could predict nothing too surely but its vanishment; as to the duty, it might also imply a labor for which the Mariuses and Sullas, the Caesars and Pompeys, albeit with strong parties at their backs, had been too small men. And Octavius had no party, and he was no soldier, and he had no friends except that Vipsanius back in Apollonia.
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