“Well then, now that you have beleaguered the Senate-house, and treated the Forum as enemies' around，and men，displav the same darinz filled the prison with our foremostcourage in making a sortie fromhave not the courage even for thi the Lsquiiine gate, or it you s, mount the walls and watch your fields disgracefully laid waste with fire二d sword, plunder carried off and smoke rising everywhere from your burning dwellings But x may be told it is the common interests of all that are being injured by this; the land is burned, the City besieged, all the honours of war rest with the enemy. Good heavens! In what condition are your own private interests? Every one of you will have losses reported to h如from the fields. What, pray, is血ere at home from which to make them good? will the tribunes restore and repay you for what you have lost? They will contribute any amount、you like of talk and words and accusations against the leading men, and law after law,and meetings of the Assembly. But from. those meetings nota single one of you will ever go home the richer. Who has everbrought back to his wife and children anything but resentmentand hatred, party strife and personal quarrels, from which youare to be protected not by your own courage and honesty ofpurpose, but by the help of others? But, let me tell you, whenyou were campaigning under us your consuls, not under tribunes, in the camp not in the Forum, and your battle-cry appalled the enemy in the field, not the patricians. of Borne in the Assembly, then you obtained booty, took territory from. the enemy, and returned to your homes and household gods in triumph, laden with wealth and covered w .多ory both for the State and for yourselves. Now you allow the enemy to depart laden with your property. Go on, stick to your Assembly meetings, pass your lives in the Forum, still the necessity, which you shirk, of taking the娜d妙ows you.7 Y 'P，It was too much for.7”“，to go out against. the thqui and， v oisczans;.， now -the war is at， your g守S.， .1.，挤is no!V ".飞beat1邻，，bacx,峨will1日e。粤tnm ther 万ales, it win scale the Citaae.t aria the Capitol and follow you inzo your homes. It is two years since the senate ordered a levy to be raised and an. army led out to Al乡dus;we are still sitting i衡 at home, wran gling with. one another like a troop of women, delighted with the momentary peace, and shutting our eyes to the fact that we shall very soon have to pay for our inaction many times over Inwar. “I know that there are other things pleasanter to speak about than these, but necess ompels me, even if a sense of duty did not, to say what e instead of what is agreeable. I should only be too glad, Quir ites, t o give you pleasure, but I would very much rather have you safe, however you may feel towards me for the future. Nature has so ordered matters that the man who addresses the multitude for his own private ends is much more popular than the man who thinks of nothing but the public good Possib玩you imagine that it is in your interest that those demagogues who flatter the not suffer you either to take up arms or live in peace, excite you and, make you restless.，.件ey only do so to win， notoriety11 "1 -1 ,, 1 It 叮℃gmax气somernm乒out or It, and aecau,,擎th叹see that黔en the two oraers are in harmony they are nowhere, they are willing to be leaders in a bad cause rather than in none, and get up disturbances and seditions. “If there is any possibility_ of your becoming at。 last weary_ of., .r. "11. ., , this sort of thing, 11 you are wzlimg to resume the character old days, instead unishment I will these destrovers which marked your fathers and yourselves inof these new-(angled ideas, then there is no pnot submit to, if I do not in a few days driveof our fields in confusion and flight out ofremove from our gates and walls to their citiesof war which now so appals you." tnezr carne. and this areaa aspect