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How, then, can you accuse Sestius with reference to this fact of his having
provided himself with a guard, when at the same time you praise Milo? Is it legal for that man to provide
himself with a guard who is defending his own house, who is repelling fire
and sword from his altars and his fire-side, who seeks to be allowed to
present himself with safety in the forum, in the temples of the gods, and in
the senate-house; but do you think that man who is warned by the wounds
which he sees every day over his whole person, to defend his head, and his
neck, and his throat, and his sides, by some protection or other, deserving
to be prosecuted for violence?
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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