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• The Fragments Which Remain of the Speech of M. T. Cicero On Behalf of Marcus Tullius. 1
• The Fragments Which Remain of the Speech of M. T. Cicero On Behalf of Marcus Fonteius.
• The Oration of M. T. Cicero In Behalf of Aulus CÆcina.
• The Speech of M. T. Cicero In Defence of the Proposed Manilian Law
• The Speech of M. T. Cicero In Defence of Aulus Cluentius Avitus.
• The Fragments of the Speech of M. T. Cicero In Defence of Caius Cornelius.
• The Fragments of the Second Speech For Cornelius.
• The Fragments of the Speech of M. T. Cicero In His White Gown, Against C. Antonius and L. Catilina, His Competitors For the Consulship. Delivered In the Senate.
• The Speech of M. T. Cicero In Opposition to Publius Servilius Rullus, a Tribune of the People Concerning the Agrarian Law. Delivered In the Senate. the First Oration On This Subject.
• The Second Speech of M. T. Cicero In Opposition to Publius Servilius Rullus, a Tribune of the People, Concerning the Agrarian Law. Delivered to the People.
• The Third Speech of M. T. Cicero In Opposition to Publius Servilius Rullus, a Tribune of the People, Concerning the Agrarian Law. Delivered to the People.
• The Speech of M. T. Cicero In Defence of Caius Rabirius, Accused of Treason.
• The First Oration of M T. Cicero Against Lucius Catilina. Delivered In the Senate.
• The Second Oration of M. T. Cicero Against Lucius Catilina. Addressed to the People.
• The Third Oration of M. T. Cicero Against Lucius Catilina. Addressed to the People.
• The Fourth Oration of M. T. Cicero Against Lucius Catilina Delivered In the Senate.
• The Oration of M. T. Cicero In Defence of L. Murena, Prosecuted For Bribery.
• The Oration of M. T. Cicero In Defence of Publius Sylla.
• The Speech of M. T. Cicero For Aulus Licinius Archias, the Poet.
• The Speech of M. T. Cicero In Defence of Lucius Flaccus.
• The Speech of M. T. Cicero After His Return. Addressed to the Senate.
• The Speech of M. T. Cicero After His Return. Addressed to the People.
• The Speech of M. T. Cicero Against Publius Clodius and Caius Curio.
• The Speech of M. T. Cicero In Defence of Marcus Æmilius Scaurus. 1

THE FRAGMENTS OF THE SECOND SPEECH FOR CORNELIUS.

Do you hesitate, then, as to the point who these witnesses are? I will tell you two of them; the rest are men of consular rank, enemies of the power of the tribunes; and besides those, a few of their flatterers and tools follow them.NA* * which your uncle, a most illustrious man, descended from a most illustrious father, grandfather, and ancestors, in silence, I believe, with the good wishes of the nobles, and when no one was prepared to interpose his veto, gave to the Roman people, and took away from the colleges of most powerful men, namely, the power of electing the priests.NA* * *

What more? The same Domitius harassed with all the power belonging to a tribune of the people, Marcus Silanus, a man of consular rank.

This dispute is of this nature, that a tribune of the people, Cnæus Domitius NA* * * *