Violation of the Laws of his Country, should be a turbulent Subject of the State. It is impoffible that he, who would not suffer the same Perfon to go free after he was acquitted, fhould ever himself with Impunity employ the Arts of Corruption. The Common-wealth, my Lords, has of Marcus Calius two Impeachments, as Hostages that he will never endanger her, and as Pledges that he will always ferve her. Therefore, I beg and conjure you, my Lords, that in the City in which within these few Days Sextus Clodius was acquitted, whom for two Years ye have seen either the Tool or the Leader of Sedition, who with his own Hand burnt down a confecrated Temple, the Register of Rome, and the Archives of her Government, a Man deftitute, difhonourable, defperate, inconftant, and inconfiderable ; whofe Mouth, whofe Tongue, whose Hand has been polluted through all his Life; who deftroyed the Monument of Catulus, demolished my House, burnt that of my Brother; who in the Palatium, and in the View of all Rome, raised the Slaves to maffacre our Citizens, and burn the City. Do not in the fame City suffer him to be acquitted through

Milo.

This is the fame we read so much of in the Oration for

through the Intereft, and Marcus Calius to be facrificed to the Lufts of a Woman, left it fhould appear that the fame Woman, and her Hufband-Brother, have had the Interest to deliver a fcandalous Ruffian, and to ruin a most excellent young Man.

AND while you view his Youth, do you place before your Eyes the ftooping Age of this wretched old Man, propt by this his only Son, hoping nothing but for him, fearing nothing but on his Account. Support him, if ever ye knew the Duties of a Son, if ever ye felt the Earnings of a Parent now imploring your Mercy, fubmitting to your Power, and here proftrate, not to footh your Pride, but to touch your Compaffion. Let the Sorrows which both feel, awaken within you every Sentiment of filial Piety, and every Pang of paternal Love. Let not, my Lords, your Severity, fooner than his own Destiny, deftroy the one, who by the Courfe of Nature is now dropping into Diffolution; nor let it, like a nipping Wind, or fudden Blast, blight the other juft blooming.

This is a bitter Sneer upon Claudius, whom our Author elfewhere calls a Jupiter, for his having the fame Woman both a Sifter and a Wife, to deum of La voi

The rest of this Peroration is fo extremely beautiful, that it is no Wonder the Event was favourable to Cælius, who was acquitted.

PRESERVE the Son to the Parent; the Parent to the Son; thus fhall ye not appear to have despised an old Age now almost hopeless and helpless, and to have refused to cherish, nay, to have nipped and blafted a Youth of the most promifing Hopes, whom if you preferve to yourselves, to his Friends, to his Country, you preferve a Man devoted, dedicated, attached to you and your Children; and you, my Lords, you shall chiefly reap the mature and lafting Fruits of all his Toils, and all his Labours.

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UR Author has in the following Oration fo copiously treated the Subject upon which it was pronounced; that there is very little either Occafion or Room for an Argument. It may be Sufficient to inform the Reader, that he will find Cicero in this Oration talking in a very different Strain from what he does in fome of the preceding. Cæfar was now dead, and Cicero com menced a firm intrepid Patriot. As fuch he oppofed Anthony, whom he thought the most dangerous and likely Man to pursue and finish Cæfar's Defigns. Accordingly the Intention of this Oration, which was pronounced in the Senate, was to put the Senate upon its Guard against Anthony, who was jealous that our Author's Intereft might very much influence the Senate against him.

This Oration was pronounced in the Year of Rome 709, and of our Author's Age 63.

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