The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4

The Orations of Marcus Tullius
Cicero, Volume 4

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Title: The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
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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 APPENDED THE TREATISE ON RHETORICAL
INVENTION; THE ORATOR; TOPICS; ON RHETORICAL
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
* * * * *
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, CALLED PHILIPPICS.

THE FIRST PHILIPPIC.
THE ARGUMENT
When Julius, or, as he is usually called by Cicero Caius Caesar was
slain on the 15th of March, A.U.C. 710, B.C. 44 Marcus Antonius was
his colleague in the consulship, and he, being afraid that the
conspirators might murder him too, (and it is said that they had debated
among themselves whether they would or no) concealed himself on that
day and fortified his house, till perceiving that nothing was intended
against him, he ventured to appear in public the day following. Lepidus
was in the suburbs of Rome with a regular army, ready to depart for the
government of Spain, which had been assigned to him with a part of
Gaul. In the night, after Caesar's death he occupied the forum with his
troops and thought of making himself master of the city, but Antonius
dissuaded him from that idea and won him over to his views by giving
his daughter in marriage to Lepidus's son, 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 them as
a hostage of his sincerity, and so deluded them, that Brutus supped with
Lepidus, and Cassius with Antonius. By these means he got them to
consent to his passing a decree for the confirmation of all Caesar's acts,
without describing or naming them more precisely. At last, on the
occasion of Caesar's public funeral, he contrived so to inflame the
populace against the conspirators, that Brutus and Cassius had some
difficulty in defending their houses and their lives and he gradually
alarmed them so much, and worked so cunningly on their fears that
they all quitted Rome. Cicero also left Rome, disapproving greatly of
the vacillation and want of purpose in the conspirators. On the first of
June Antonius assembled the senate to deliberate on the affairs of the
republic, and in the interval visited all parts of Italy. In the meantime
young Octavius appeared on the stage; he had been left by Caesar, who
was his uncle, the heir to his name and estate. He returned from
Apollonia, in Macedonia, to Italy as soon as he heard of his uncle's
death, and arrived at Naples on the eighteenth of April, where he was
introduced by Hirtius and Pansa to Cicero, whom he promised to be
guided in all respects by his directions. He was now between eighteen
and nineteen years of age.

He began by the representation of public spectacles and games in
honour of Caesar's victories. In the meantime Antonius, in his progress
through Italy, was making great use of the decree confirming all
Caesar's acts, which he interpolated and forged in the most shameless
manner. Among other things he restored Deiotarus to all his dominions,
having been bribed to do so by a hundred millions of sesterces by the
king's agents, but Deiotarus himself, as soon as he heard of Caesar's
death, seized all his dominions by force. He also seized the public
treasure which Caesar had deposited in the temple of Ops, amounting
to above four millions and a half of our money, and with this he won
over Dolabella,[1] who had seized the consulship on the death