[71]
But when he sits in that place, surrounded by all those
bands of public guards, he declares plainly enough that he is not striking
terror into you, (for what could be less worthy of him than to condemn a man
whom he himself might punish if guilty, both by his own authority and in
strict accordance with the precedents of our ancestors?) but that he keeps
them about him for the sake of protection; that you may be
aware that it is allowed to you to decide with freedom according to your own
opinions, in contradiction to that assembly of the people which was held
yesterday.
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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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