cum a Libone tribuno plebis Ser. Galba pro rostris vehementer increparetur, quod Lusitanorum magnam manum interposita fide praetor in Hispania interemisset, actionique tribuniciae M. Cato ultimae senectutis oratione sua, quam in Origines rettulit, subscriberet, reus, pro se iam nihil recusans, parvulos liberos suos et Gali sanguine sibi coniunctum filium flens commendare coepit, eoque facto mitigata contione qui omnium consensu periturus erat paene nullum triste suffragium habuit.
Ser. Galba was vehemently attacked from the rostra by Tribune of the Plebs Libo for killing as Praetor in Spain a large body of Lusitanians with whom he had made a treaty, and M. Cato supported the Tribunes proceeding in a speech of his extreme old age which he put into his Origins. The accused declared his readiness to accept any punishment for himself, but began to commend with tears his little children and Galus son, who was his blood relation. By so doing he softened the hearts of the assembly and, doomed as he had been by universal consent, he received hardly a single vote of guilty.
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