When in the greatest perils of this city and empire, in the most important and terrible
disasters of the republic, I was repelling slaughter from you, your wives, and your children,
devastation from your temples, your altars, from the city and from Italy, with Lucius Flaccus,
the companion and assistant of my counsels and my dangers, I used to hope, O judges, that I
should some time or other be an assistant of Lucius Flaccus towards obtaining honour, rather
than an advocate to defend him from calamity. For what reward of dignity could there be which
the Roman people would deny to him, when it had always given them to his ancestors; when
Lucius Flaccus had imitated the ancient glory of the Valerian family in delivering his
country, nearly five hundred years after the existence of the republic?
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