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I wish, O conscript fathers, that the immortal gods had granted to us to return
thanks to Servius Sulpicius while alive, rather than thus to devise honors for
him now that he is dead. Nor have I any doubt, but that if that man had been
able himself to give us his report of the proceedings of his embassy, his return
would have been acceptable to you and salutary to the republic. Not that either
Lucius. Piso or Lucius Philippus have been deficient
in either zeal or care in the performance of so important a duty and so grave a
commission; but, as Servius Sulpicius was superior in age to them, and in wisdom
to every one, he, being suddenly taken from the business, left the whole embassy
crippled and enfeebled.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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