M. Tullius Cicero, Speech before Roman Citizens on Behalf of Gaius Rabirius, Defendant Against the Charge of Treason
William Blake Tyrrell, Ed.

[35] [What] would I have [done], if Titus Labie[nus] had [perpetrated] s]laughter on citizens as did Lucius Satur[ninus], if he [had broken down] a prison, if he had [occup]ied the Capitoli[um with armed men]? I would have done [the same thing th]at Gaius Marius d[id]: I would have l[aid] the matter before the senate, I would have ar[ou]sed you to the [def]ense of the Republic, and, under arms [myself] and with you at my side, I would have opposed an ar[med man]. [Now as it is] since there is no suspicion of arms (I see no weapons), no violence, no slaughter, no blockade of the Capitolium and Capitol, but since there is a pernicious accusation, a harsh penalty, a whole enterprise undertaken against the Republic by a tribune of the commoners, I thought that you were not [to be] call[ed] to arms [but] to be exhorted to your ballots against this assault upon your majesty. And so, I now beg you all, I entreat you, I encourage you. It is not thus the custom that a consul ...