Etenim cum homines nefarii de patriae parricidio confiterentur, consciorum indiciis, sua manu, voce paene litterarum coacti se urbem inflammare, civis trucidare, vastare Italiam, delere rem publicam consensisse, quis esset qui ad salutem communem defendendam non excitaretur, praesertim cum senatus populusque Romanus haberet ducem, qualis si qui nunc esset, tibi idem quod illis accidit contigisset?
For when wicked men were confessing to treason against their native land, when compelled by the evidence of their accomplices, by their own handwriting, and by documents which almost cried aloud, they admitted their plot to set Rome on fire, slaughter her citizens, lay Italy waste, and destroy the Republic, who was there who was not stirred to defend the common well-being, especially since the senate and people of Rome had a true leader, and if any of that sort were a leader now, what happened to the plotters would have happened to you.
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