1. "drink-sodden, sex-ridden wreck" 2. "utterly loathsome gladiator" 3. "has absolutely no idea how to behave" 4. "totally uncivilized" 5. "just see how unbelievably stupid he is"
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(thread!) ive just read the second philippic so here's a handy list of all the insults cicero used against mark antony because they are just so ,,,
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6. "a complete fool" 7. "not ill-behaved but a lunatic" 8. "a bandit and a criminal" 9. "disgusting, intolerable sensualist" 10. "vicious, unsavoury crook!"
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11. "poor fool!" 12. "all that is good is completely foreign to your mind" 13. "your speech was demented" 14. "must be the most stupid man alive" 15. "must be an imbecile"
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16. "you understand neither this poem nor any other literature" 17. "what a fool you are, antony" 18. "this sheep" 19. "your actions and opinions are even more brainless" 20. "try to make your brain work for a moment"
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21. "unprincipled rogue" 22. "our Helen of Troy" 23. "a robber of gold and silver - and of wine" 24. "you drank so much wine at the wedding, Antony, that on the next day you had to be sick in full view of the people of rome. it was a disgusting sight." 25. "you are brainless"
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lastly, my personal favourite (although this is paraphrased): "today he is not in the senate because he is at a birthday-party with parasites and pimps"
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Have said many of these things to my himbo cat
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As far as I’m concerned, Cicero is forever indebted to Antony because the Second Philippic is the best and funniest thing Cicero ever wrote. I hope he was thankful to his Muse
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To be fair I think “Drink sodden sex ridden wreck” is a compliment.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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So that's why Cicero was proscribed...
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And was murdered...
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