many Dangers which must cleave, not only to this delivered People, but to the Tongues and the Minds of every Nation on Earth. Nor indeed can any Power be fo formidable as to penetrate, and to shake the Union of your Order with that of the Roman Knights, and this thorough Harmony of all well - affected Citizens,

THEREFORE, Fathers Confcript, inftead of Command; instead of an Army; instead of a Province which I neglected; instead of a Triumph, and other Distinctions of Glory which I flighted, for the Prefervation of you and this City; instead of my Clientships and Provincial Appointments, which, with my Fortune in the City, I labour as much to fupport as to acquire; for all thefe Services, for all the Inftances of my Zeal for your Intereft, and for the Pains which ye are Witneffes I bestow on the Preservation of this Republic, all I require of you is the Commemoration of this Juncture, and of the whole of my Confulate; while that shall remain in your Minds, I shall think myself surrounded with an impregnable Wall. But should my Expectation be disappointed by Ruffian Violence, to you I recommend my little Son, Sufficient shall be his Guard, not only

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to preserve, but to do him Honour, if you shall remember him to be the Son of the Man, who at his own private Peril preserved all your Concerns. Therefore, Fathers Confcript, as you propofe, determine with Quickness and Refolution in an Affair that concerns your very Being, and that of the People of Rome; your Wives and Children; your Religion and Properties; your Fanes and Temples; the Roofs and Manfions of all the City; your Empire; your Liberty; the Safety of Italy, and the whole System of your Conftitution. You have a Conful, who, without Hefitation, will obey your Orders, and while he breathes, will, in his own Perfon, charge himself, with the Execution and Defence of whatever you shall decree.

The Fana were little Chapels, dedicated to the inferior Deities, or Heroes.

This Oration was followed by a Decree of the Senate, that the Confpirators fhould be put to Death; which was executed the fame Night in the public Prifon.

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HIS Oration, which the ingenious Dr. Middleton, in his Life of Cicero, juftly calls the most entertaining of all his Orations, was pronounced upon the following Occafion: Marcus Cælius was a young Gentleman who had been educated under the Eye of Cicero; and being of a graceful Perfon and amorous Difpofition, but of fine Genius and Learning, entered into Some loofe Familiarities with Clodia, the Sifter of Publius Clodius, a Lady infamous for her Lewdnefs, Cælius cafting her off, the Lady's Friends impeached him of a Defign to poifon Clodia ; of borrowing from her a Sum of Money to murder Some Alexandrian Embassadors; of male-treating his Father of being the Friend of Catiline; of being rude to the Roman Matrons; of beating a Senator; and some feditious Practices at Naples, with feveral other Crimes. The chief Profecutor was Atratinus, whofe Father was at the fame time impeached for corrupt Practices by the Defendant Cælius, who was acquitted upon this Occafion.

It was pronounced in the 697th Year of Rome, and the 51ft of Cicero's Age.

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HOULD it happen, my Lords, that in this Court there is a Man unacquainted with our Laws, our Judicatures and Forms of Proceedings, fure he must be at a Lofs to account for the aggravating Circumstances that render

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This Caufe was tried before Cneius Domitius Calvinus the Prætor, who called to his Affiftance a certain Number of the Knights or Senators, to affift him in the Trial. Thefe Cicero calls the Judges, and frequently addreffes himself to them; though they seem to anfwer more properly to our Jury, fince they

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