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.