44-43 BC

Cic. Phil. 2.80

Philippics 2.80

Author
Cicero
Translator
C. D. Yonge

Philippics

2.80

Cicero

translated by C. D. Yonge

80And what things were they which he said in his anger, O ye good gods! First of all, after Cæsar had declared that before he departed he would order Dolabella to be made consul, (and they deny that he was a king who was always doing and saying something of this sort,)—but after Cæsar had said this, then this virtuous augur said that he was invested with a pontificate of that sort that he was able, by means of the auspices, either to hinder or to vitiate the comitia, just as he pleased; and he declared that he would do so.