BOOK XLVI words and actions are similar. Or do you not b.c. 43 observe how also after Caesar's death, when order had been restored in our state chiefly by Antony, as not even Cicero himself can deny, Cicero went abroad, because he considered our life of harmony alien and dangerous to him ? And how, when he perceived that turmoil had again arisen, he bade a long farewell to his son and to Athens, and returned ? Or, again, how he insults and abuses Antony, whom he was wont to say he loved, and cooperates with Caesar, whose father he killed ? And if chance so favour, he will ere long attack Caesar also. For the fellow is naturally faithless and turbulent, and has no ballast in his soul, but is always stirring up and overturning things, shifting his course oftener than the waters of the strait x to which he fled, — whence his nickname of "turn-coat," 2 — yet demanding of you all that you consider a man as friend or foe according to his bidding. " For these reasons you must guard against the fellow ; for he is a cheat and an impostor and grows rich and powerful from the ills of others, slandering, mauling, and rending the innocent after the manner of dogs, whereas in the midst of public harmony he is embarrassed and withers away, since love and good-will on our part towards one another cannot support this kind of orator. How else, indeed, do you imagine, has he become rich, and how else has he become great? Certainly neither family nor wealth was bequeathed him by his father, the fuller, who
The reference is to the Euripus, the narrow channel
between Euboea and the mainland of Greece.
Cf. xxxvi. 44, 2 ; xxxix. 63, 5.
