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Torquatus being cut off from this article of his accusation, again turns against me, and
accuses me. He says that I have made an entry in the public registers of a different statement
from that which was really made. O ye immortal gods! (for I will give you what belongs to you;
nor can I attribute so much to my own ability, as to think that I was able, in that most
turbulent tempest which was afflicting the republic, to manage, of my own power, so many and
such important affairs,—affairs arising so unexpectedly, and of such various
characters,) it was you, in truth, who then inflamed my mind with the desire of saving my
country; it was you who turned me from all other thoughts to the one idea of preserving the
republic; it was you who, amid all that darkness of error and ignorance, held a bright light
before my mind!
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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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