[-22-] “Tell me now, you who write such things and do such things, what the excellent man ought to say in popular address and do in action:  for you are better at advising others about any matter whatsoever than at doing your own duty, and better at rebuking others than at reforming yourself.  Yet how much better it were for you instead of reproaching Antony with cowardice to lay aside yourself that effeminacy both of spirit and of body, instead of bringing a charge of disloyalty against him to cease yourself from doing anything disloyal or playing the deserter, instead of accusing him of ingratitude to cease yourself from wronging your benefactors!  For this, I must tell you, is one of his inherent defects, that he hates above all those who have done him any favor, and is always fawning upon somebody else but plotting against these persons.  To leave aside other instances, he was pitied and preserved by Caesar and enrolled among the patricians, after which he killed him,—­no, not with his own hand (he is too cowardly and womanish), but by persuading and making ready others who should do it.  The men themselves showed that I speak the truth in this.  When they ran out into the Forum with their naked blades, they invoked him by name, saying ‘Cicero!’ repeatedly, as you all heard.  His benefactor, Caesar, then, he slew, and as for Antony from whom he obtained personally safety and a priesthood when he was in danger of perishing at the hands of the soldiers in Brundusium, he repays him with this sort of thanks, by accusing him for deeds with which neither he himself nor any one else ever found any fault and attacking him for conduct which he praises in others.  Yet he sees this Caesar, who has not attained the age yet to hold office or have any part in politics and has not been chosen by you, sees him equipped with power and standing as the author of a war without our vote or orders, and not only has no blame to bestow, but pronounces laudations.  So you perceive that he investigates neither what is just with reference to the laws nor what is useful with reference to the public weal, but simply manages everything to suit his own will, censuring in some what he extols in others, spreads false reports against you, and calumniates you gratuitously.[-23-] For you will find that all of Antony’s acts after Caesar’s demise were ordered by you.  To speak about the disposition of the funds and the examination of the letters I deem to be superfluous.  Why so?  Because first it would be the business of the one who inherited his property to look into the matter, and second, if there was any truth in the charge of malfeasance, it ought to have been stopped then on the moment.  For none of the transactions was carried on underhandedly, Cicero, but they were all recorded on tablets, as you yourself affirm.  If Antony committed his many wrongs so openly and shamelessly as you say, and plundered the whole of Crete on the pretext that in accord with Caesar’s letters it had been left free after the governorship