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 ANTONIO. 267 plication, he was ;it la(t ctviblcd to fmifh hi; (< BibliothecaftU p. 411. I^ilo.miea," in lour volumes folio, two of v. hirli he publifilttl^**' at Rome, in 1672. A !":. the publication i.t Mu-ie two vo- lumes, he was. recalled to iM;.diid by Chaiks II. to take upon him the office ot rounfelloi to ihe crufadc, which he discharged with great inte v. t. 1 l'^ '<-.uh, in i ''-'+. lie lift nothing but his vaft iibr.ry, which !,< In i l.'ou.'ht from Rome to Madrid ; and his relations hein un.iSV i. publilh the rem.'inmg voli.mr;. of his l>i jli'itl'r. H, lei.r il cm to cardinal d'Agu.fpc, who paid the ch;n, and committed the cate thereof tomonlic ir. i irti, his IH i- rian, who added n t j s to them, ia the name of the cardinal. Antonio rud been allo engaged in a work, in>itk- ! " T,-o- 4(1 phaeum hiftorico-ecdefiaflicum I M-O v^ritati crt-clutn ex 44 circumferuntur ; hoc eft, Vindiciae vera; atque dudumnotar <c tarum in libertatcm et puntatcm plena aflertio." He lud niHi tS. projected feveral other works in his mind, but we mult not" '" omit that which he publilhed at Antwerp in 1659, " Dep.gjj/j,^ " exilio, five de pcena exilii, exiliun-.que conditione et juri- ANTONIUS (MARCUS), a famous Roman orator, highly .debated by Cicero, after riling fucceflively through the le- vcr.il preparatory offices in the Commonwealth, was made conful in the year of Rome 653 ; and foon after governor of Cilicia, in quality of proconlul, where he performed fo many great exploits in the military way, that he obtained the honour of a triumph. We cannot omit obfervtng, that in order to improve his talent for eloquence, he became a fcholar to the greaieft men at Rhodes and Athens, in his way to Cilicia, and on his return to Rome. Afterwatds he was appointed cenfor, which office he difcharged with great leputation: he earned his caufe before the people againlfc Marcus Duroniiis, who had preferred an accufation of bribery againft him, in revenge for Antoniub's having erafed his name out of the lift of fenators ; which this wife cenfor had done, becaufe Duronius, when tribune of the people, had abrogated a law, which retrained immoderate ex pence in feafts. He was one of the greateit orators ever known ..t Rome; and it was owing to him, according to Cicero, that Romemioht boaft hcrfelf a rival even to Greece itfelf in the arc
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