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Cicero
Philippics Passage 89
Passage 127 of 544
Canonical reference 2.89
Latin
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O mea frustra semper verissima auguria rerum futurarum! dicebam illis in Capitolio liberatoribus nostris, cum me ad te ire vellent, ut ad defendendam rem publicam te adhortarer, quoad metueres, omnia te promissurum; simul ac timere desisses, similem te futurum tui. itaque cum ceteri consulares irent, redirent, in sententia mansi: neque te illo die neque postero vidi neque ullam societatem optimis civibus cum importunissimo hoste foedere ullo confirmari posse credidi. post diem tertium veni in aedem telluris et quidem invitus, cum omnis aditus armati obsiderent.
English AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
O my forecasts of future events, always most accurate and always in vain! When our liberators on the Capitol wished me to go to you and exhort you to defend the republic, I told them that so long as you were afraid, you would promise everything; as soon as you ceased to fear, you would become like yourself again. And so, although the other former consuls went back and forth, I remained firm in my judgment. I saw you neither that day nor the next, and I did not believe that any compact could establish a partnership between the best citizens and the most savage enemy. On the third day I came to the temple of Tellus, and unwillingly at that, while armed men blocked every approach.
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
Ô mes prévisions des événements futurs, toujours si justes et toujours inutiles! Sur le Capitole, je disais à nos libérateurs, lorsqu’ils voulaient que j’aille te trouver pour t’exhorter à défendre la République, que tu promettrais tout aussi longtemps que tu aurais peur, mais que, dès que tu cesserais de craindre, tu redeviendrais semblable à toi-même. Aussi, tandis que les autres consulaires allaient et revenaient, je demeurai ferme dans mon avis. Je ne te vis ni ce jour-là ni le suivant, et je ne crus pas qu’aucun pacte pût consolider une alliance entre les meilleurs citoyens et l’ennemi le plus monstrueux. Le troisième jour, je vins au temple de Tellus, et même contre mon gré, alors que tous les accès étaient occupés par des hommes armés.
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