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In fourteen orations known as Philippics, Cicero attacked Mark Antony following the assassination of Julius Caesar.
How many days you held your sickening orgy in that house! From ten in the" morning there was drinking, fooling around, and vomiting. . . . Once you and your crew of squatters took over, the halls echoed with the voices of drunks, the floors were swimming with wine, even the walls were soaked, free boys were mixed up with rented ones, matrons with hookers. . . . You took on a man's toga and turned it into a whore's. At first, you were a common prostitute and your price was fixed (and not small either). But soon Curio turned up, drew you away from your meretricious trade and, as if he had given you a matron's robe, established you in lasting and stable matrimony.
Source: Cicero, Philippics, translated by D...
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