ad singulare enim M. Antoni factum festinat oratio, dictaturam, quae iam vim regiae potestatis obsederat, funditus ex re publica sustulit;
as my tongue hastens on to Marcus Antonius most remarkable gesture, the total removal of the office of dictator from our constitution, an office that had usurped the power of absolute monarchy.
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