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For this day, O conscript
fathers, has dawned upon you, and this opportunity has been afforded you of
proving to the Roman people how much virtue, how much firmness, and how much
dignity exists in the counsels of this order. Recollect what a day it was
thirteen days ago; how great was then your unanimity, and virtue, and firmness;
and what great praise, what great glory, and what great gratitude you earned
from the Roman people. And on that day, O conscript fathers, you resolved that
no other alternative was in your power, except either an honorable peace or a
necessary war.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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