10.
[25]
You will go at last where your unbridled and mad desire has been long hurrying you. And
this causes you no grief; but an incredible pleasure. Nature has formed you, desire has
trained you, fortune has preserved you for this insanity. Not only did you never desire
quiet, but you never even desired any war but a criminal one; you have collected a baud of
profligates and worthless men, abandoned not only by all fortune but even by hope.
[26]
Then what happiness will you enjoy with what delight
will you exult in what pleasure will you revel! when in so numerous a body of friends, you
neither hear nor see one good man. All the toils you have gone through have always pointed to
this sort of life; your lying on the ground not merely to lie in wait to gratify your unclean
desires, but even to accomplish crimes; your vigilance, not only when plotting against the
sleep of husbands, but also against the goods of your murdered victims, have all been
preparations for this. Now you have an opportunity of displaying your splendid endurance of
hunger, of cold, of want of everything; by which in a short time you will find yourself worn
out.
[27]
All this I effected when I procured your rejection
from the consulship, that you should be reduced to make attempts on your country as an exile,
instead of being able to distress it as consul, and that that which had been wickedly
undertaken by you should be called piracy rather than war.
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