I was a bit saddened that the person who read the letter from Cicero didn't perform the lawyerly "distancing ritual" of saying "The letter says, and I quote *cough* 'Marcus Antonius is a big [fill in appropriate quotation]'."

The *cough* is necessary to call attention to the fact that it's a quote and the messenger is not responsible for the content. That's probably why MA had to kill him. No *cough*