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I do not wonder that you, men of such folly and intemperance as you are, should have
desired these things—I do marvel that you should have hoped that you could obtain
them while I am consul. For as all consuls ought to exercise the greatest care and diligence
in the protection of the republic, so, above all others, ought they to do so who have not
been made consuls in their cradles, but in the Campus. No ancestors of mine went bail to the
Roman people for me; you gave credit to me; it is from me that you must claim what I am bound
to pay; all your demands must be made on me. As, when I stood for the consulship, no authors
of my family recommended me to you; so, if. I commit any fault, there are no images of my
ancestors which can beg me off from you.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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