(for what else can I call him? He restored many men who had fallen under misfortune. 17In truth, when wicked men, being compelled by the revelations of the accomplices, by their own handwriting, and by what I may almost call the voices of their letters, were confessing that they had planned the parricidal destruction of their country, and that they had agreed to burn the city, to massacre the citizens, to devastate Italy, to destroy the republic; who could have existed without being roused to defend the common safety? 72At first you answered fiercely enough; and that I may not appear prejudiced against you in every particular, you used a tolerably just and reasonable argument. At one time he says, “that it appears to him to be just, . When you recollected that all this was done by me, would you have dared to provoke me by abuse if you had not been trusting to those swords which we behold? With respect to all the things which Cæsar was intending to do in the senate on the ides of March, I ask whether you have done anything? 103After this violation of all religious observances, you hasten off to the estate of Marcus Varro, a most conscientious and upright man, at Casinum. In truth, such a defence is full of filial affection. Its vote is declared. and two thousand to your master of oratory; what would you have done if he had been able to make you eloquent? It was a great kindness! what had you perceived? Do you regret your most illustrious citizens? They are not homicides then. Either take away religion in every case, or preserve it in every case. Cicero Philippic 2 67 Hi there. 27Was Cnæus Domitius spurred on to seek to recover his dignity, not by the death of his father, a most illustrious man, nor by the death of his uncle, nor by the deprivation of his own dignity, but by my advice and authority? There was an immense quantity of wine, an excessive abundance of very valuable plate, much precious apparel, great quantities of splendid furniture, and other magnificent things in many places, such as one was likely to see belonging to a man who was not indeed luxurious, but who was very wealthy. Oh how splendid was that eloquence of yours, when you harangued the people stark naked! The authority of this order is overthrown; it is Antonius who has overthrown it. For what other pretence did he allege? nor would you allow any one to plead with you in behalf of the authority of the senate; and yet, what did any one entreat of you, except that you would not desire the republic to be entirely overthrown and destroyed; when neither the chief men of the state by their entreaties, nor the elders by their warnings, nor the senate in a full house by pleading with you, could move you from the determination which you had already sold and as it were delivered to the purchaser? What can go beyond this? You went a great distance to meet Cæsar on his return from Spain. Many months before, he said in the senate that he would either prevent the comitia from assembling for the election of Dolabella by means of the auspices, or that he would do what he actually did do. But I imagine that this was mentioned by you, in order that you might recommend yourself to the citizens, if they all recollected that you were the son-in-law of a freedman, and that your children were the grandsons of Quintus Fadius a freedman. The first class is called. But from the many evils which by him have been burnt into the republic, there is still this good, that the Roman people has now learnt how much to believe every one, to whom to trust itself, and against whom to guard. Will you make any reply to these statements? It was you who let loose those attacks of abandoned men, slaves for the most part, which we repelled by violence and our own personal exertions; it was you who set them on to attack our houses. 3 | About This Work ». 84But take notice of the arrogance and insolence of the fellow. Seite 1 von 1 [2 Beiträge ] [phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/vendor/twig/twig/lib/Twig/Extension/Core.php on line 1266: count(): Parameter must be … Spurius Cassius, Spurius Mælius, and Marcus Manlius were all slain because they were suspected of aiming at regal power. Kr. 16But you have dared besides (what is there which you would not dare?) However, do you decide on your conduct. How then did Dolabella manage to arrive there? I have just briefly explained to you, O conscript fathers, the reason of my return. All men, therefore, are guilty as far as this goes. I will name no one. You assumed the manly gown, which you soon made a womanly one: at first a public prostitute, with a regular price for your wickedness, and that not a low one. By this time I envy your teacher, who for all that payment, which I shall mention presently, has taught you to know nothing. O ye immortal gods, they are men whose birthdays we have still to learn. Or did he wish to contend with me in a rivalry of eloquence? Although the instance which you cite I have myself at all times openly admitted. But by the sale of this decree (that you may not, O conscript fathers, think it wholly ineffectual) you have lost the province of Crete. In truth, if twenty years ago in this very temple I asserted that death could not come prematurely upon a man of consular rank, with how much more truth must I now say the same of an old man? Although, indeed, (as your most intimate friends usually say,) you are in the habit of declaiming, not for the purpose of whetting your genius, but of working off the effects of wine. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. Such profligacy as that could have devoured not only the patrimony of one individual, however ample it might have been, (as indeed his was,) but whole cities and kingdoms. However, what answer would you make if I were to deny that I ever sent those letters to you? Let us come to more important subjects. Do you never think on these things? He himself had no power at all; he begged everything of others; and thrusting his head into the hind part of his litter, he begged favours of his colleagues, to sell them himself afterwards. The one conduct would have become your dignity, and the other would have been suited to your prudence.” This, O Marcus Antonius, was at all times my advice both respecting Pompeius and concerning the republic. .” What a strange combination of words! The people of Aquinum acted foolishly, no doubt; but still they were in his road. Men follow you in battle array with drawn swords; we see whole litters full of shields borne along. a.) what sort of return was it? But I have come to mention that occasion which must be allowed to precede those matters which I had begun to discuss. and the whole of your charge amounts to this, that I do not express a bad opinion of you in those letters; that in them I wrote as to a citizen, and as to a virtuous man, not as to a wicked man and a robber. Can you, when you have one of the chiefs of the senate, a citizen of singular virtue, so nearly related to you, abstain from ever consulting him on the affairs of the republic, and consult men who have no property whatever of their own, and are draining yours? He himself well knows what I allude to. and do you think that those men were instigated by my authority rather than by their affection for the republic? Oxford. He went from Egypt to the furthest extremity of Gaul before he returned home. And their action is not only of itself a glorious and godlike exploit, but it is also one put forth for our imitation; especially since by it they have acquired such glory as appears hardly to be bounded by heaven itself. In that man were combined genius, method, memory, literature, prudence, deliberation, and industry. Those things are only an injury to yourself; these are injuries to us. Would that this accusation of yours were a true one; I should have more of my friends and connexions alive. Charybdim dico, qui, quae, quod who, which der, die, das; welcher, welche, welches L'OMS, qui chi, che que, que: que and und et e y: But it is peculiarly suited to your own audacity, that you sat among the fourteen rows of the knights, though by the Roscian law there was a place appointed for bankrupts, even if any one had become such by the fault of fortune and not by his own. 13VI. a sum lamentable indeed, as to the means by which it was procured, but still one which, if it were not restored to those to whom it belonged, might save us from taxes. which in the first place it is forbidden by law to do at the time of the comitia. As for the statues and pictures which Cæsar bequeathed to the people, together with his gardens, those he carried away, some to the house which belonged to Pompeius, and some to Scipio’s villa. why was the number of their lieutenants augmented? Although even at that time, when they thought you an excellent man, though I indeed differed from that opinion, you behaved with the greatest wickedness while presiding at the funeral of the tyrant, if that ought to be called a funeral. That, indeed, would have been nothing to the purpose, but still, since being condemned does not go for much, I would forgive you if that were the truth. He was the firebrand to handle all conflagrations; and even in his house he attempted something. But you, elated and insolent, disregarding all the respect due to the auspices, led a colony to Casilinum, whither one had been previously led a few years before; in order to erect your standard there, and to mark out the line of the new colony with a plough. Then it was, after having tried many other expedients previously, that a blow was of necessity struck at you which had been struck at only few men before you, and which none of them had ever survived. IV. 24However, two occasions did arise, on which I gave Pompeius advice against Cæsar. And this makes me wonder why you should say that Milo did that deed at my instigation; when I never once exhorted you to do it, who of your own accord attempted to do me the same service. Therefore, in truth, you have made a false declaration respecting the auspices, to your own great misfortune, I hope, rather than to that of the republic. 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. What place can there be for you where laws and courts of justice have sway, both of which you, as far as in you lay, destroyed by the substitution of kingly power? A house which for a long time no one could behold, no one could pass by without tears! whose intimate friends even were convicted of violence for having been too zealous in your favour. Yes, your consulship, forsooth, is a salutary one for the state, mine a mischievous one. or such open infamy? Unless you are the only Antonius. This, in fact, is the truth. Id. 65One man alone was found to dare to do that which the audacity of every one else had shrunk from and shuddered at. I wish you would try, and we should not then be forced to say “barely.” However, what a splendid progress of yours that was! I suppose the truth was, that he wished it to be done by me as a favour; in which matter there could not be any favour done even by himself, if a law was already passed for the purpose. What a well-tried citizen! 87And, moreover, he caused it to be recorded in the annals, under the head of Lupercalia, “That Marcus Antonius, the consul, by command of the people, had offered the kingdom to Caius Cæsar, perpetual dictator; and that Cæsar had refused to accept it.” I now am not much surprised at your seeking to disturb the general tranquillity; at your hating not only the city but the light of day; and at your living with a pack of abandoned robbers, disregarding the day, and yet regarding nothing beyond the day. You have said that no inheritances come to me. For what had that house ever beheld except what was modest, except what proceeded from the purest principles and from the most virtuous practice? For although in the very consciousness of a glorious action there is a certain reward, still I do not consider immortality of glory a thing to be despised by one who is himself mortal. On which account the republic owes him even a larger debt of gratitude, because he preferred the liberty of the Roman people to the friendship of one man, and because he preferred overthrowing arbitrary power to sharing it. XVI. 2. Quae Charybdis tam vorax? But since we wish to show a regard for the veterans, although the cause of the soldiers is very different from yours; they followed their chief; you went to seek for a leader; still, (that I may not give you any pretence for stirring up odium against me among them,) I will say nothing of the nature of the war. Can you find one single article in this long speech of mine, to which you trust that you can make any answer? Login or signup free. He thought it impossible to prove to the satisfaction of those men who resembled himself, that he was an enemy to his country, if he was not also an enemy to me. Therefore, I will now proceed again with my oration. XXI. He increased the number of years that magistrates were to enjoy their provinces; moreover, though he was bound to be the defender of the acts of Cæsar, he rescinded them both with reference to public and private transactions. The speeches made by Cicero against Antony, later published under the title Philippics, mounted a sustained attack on the way Antony exercised and abused his position of power. But this single day, this very day that now is, this very moment while I am speaking, defend your conduct during this very moment, if you can. I should sooner say that some men had boasted in order to appear to have been concerned in that conspiracy, though they had in reality known nothing of it, than that any one who had been an accomplice in it could have wished to be concealed. In truth, I am afraid that it must be considered either a not very creditable thing to them, that they should have concealed the fact of my being an accomplice; or else a most discreditable one to me that I was invited to be one, and that I shirked it. The vote is declared; he is still silent. Teil : Die Philippischen Reden (Lateinisch und Deutsch) von Cicero und eine große Auswahl ähnlicher Bücher, Kunst und Sammlerstücke erhältlich auf ZVAB.com. But he was carried through the town in a covered litter, as if he had been dead. 75XXX. How miserable is it not to be able to deny a fact which it is disgraceful to confess! Therefore, there are now such heaps of money piled up in that man’s house, that it is weighed out instead of being counted. 64XXVI. What was your rank? He was forced to live like a robber, having nothing beyond what he could plunder from others. Had you no objection to so holy a day being polluted by the addition of supplications, while you did not choose it to be so by the addition of ceremonies connected with a sacred cushion? 9For what can be less like, I do not say an orator, but a man, than to reproach an adversary with a thing which if he denies by one single word, he who has reproached him cannot advance one step further? M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes: Recognovit breviqve adnotatione critica instrvxit Albertus Curtis Clark Collegii Reginae Socius. The title Philippics (orationes Philippicae) for a corpus of political speeches composed by Cicero during the conflict with Mark Antony in 44–43 b.c. For where can you be safe in peace? the fourteen orations of m. t. cicero against marcus antonius, called philippics. 29But you, O stupidest of all men, do not you perceive, that if it is a crime to have wished that Cæsar should be slain—which you accuse me of having wished—it is a crime also to have rejoiced at his death? How were they verified by you? We are convened in the senate. Then he was a good man, and one worthy of the republic. And was it in order to collect all these arguments, O you most senseless of men, that you spent so many days in practising declamation in another man’s villa? What reason did you allege to the Roman people why it was desirable that he should be restored? He had performed exploits in war which, though calamitous for the republic, were nevertheless mighty deeds. one in which, stupid and ignorant as you are, still you can see nothing which is not painful to you. while you, with night for your accomplice, lust for your encourager, and wages for your compeller, were let down through the roof. To-day Antonius is not coming down. I suppose you were afraid that you would be able to refuse him nothing if he were restored to the full possession of his rights. What could be more foul than this? Though you yourself took no personal share in it, partly through timidity, partly through profligacy, you had tasted, or rather had sucked in, the blood of fellow-citizens: you had been in the battle of Pharsalia as a leader; you had slain Lucius Domitius, a most illustrious and high-born man; you had pursued and put to death in the most barbarous manner many men who had escaped from the battle, and whom Cæsar would perhaps have saved, as he did some others. There were perhaps swords, but they were sheathed, and they were not very numerous. Set before you the joy of the senate and people of Rome; compare it with this infamous market held by you and by your friends; and then you will understand how great is the difference between praise and profit. Has he conquered for himself alone? Other articles where Philippics is discussed: Marcus Tullius Cicero: Last months: …of August, and his 14 Philippic orations (so called in imitation of Demosthenes’ speeches against Philip II of Macedonia), the first delivered on Sept. 2, 44, the last on April 21, 43, mark his vigorous reentry into politics. 3And before I make him any reply on the other topics of his speech, I will say a few words respecting the friendship formerly subsisting between us, which he has accused me of violating,—for that I consider a most serious charge. . 66But, as some poet or other says,—, “Ill gotten gain comes quickly to an end.”. 26Moreover, how likely it is, that among such a number of men, some obscure, some young men who had not the wit to conceal any one, my name could possibly have escaped notice! And how was it, that when you owed forty millions of sesterces on the fifteenth of March, you had ceased to owe them by the first of April? 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? What a man, O ye immortal gods! For perhaps you do not quite understand propositions which are stated disjunctively. What did the people of Anagnia do? XXVII. And, indeed, you employ a master to teach you jokes, a man appointed by your own vote and that of your boon companions; a rhetorician, whom you have allowed to say whatever he pleased against you, a thoroughly facetious gentleman; but there are plenty of materials for speaking against you and against your friends. I will not treat him as a consul, for he did not treat me as a man of consular rank; and although he in no respect deserves to be considered a consul, whether we regard his way of life, or his principle of governing the republic, or the manner in which he was elected, I am beyond all dispute a man of consular rank. Behold, the day of the comitia for the election of Dolabella arrives. There are things which it is not possible for me to mention with honour; but you are all the more free for that, inasmuch as you have not scrupled to be an actor in scenes which a modest enemy cannot bring himself to mention.
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