Nam consules modesti legumque metuentes impediebantur lege, non ea, quae de me, sed ea, quae de ipsis lata erat, cum meus inimicus promulgavit, ut, si revixissent ii, qui haec paene delerunt, tum ego redirem: quo facto utrumque confessus est, et se illorum vitam desiderare et magno in periculo rem publicam futuram, si, cum hostes atque interfectores rei publicae revixissent, ego non revertissem.
For the consuls, scrupulous in their observance of the letter of the constitution, were prevented from doing so, not by the law which had been passed in reference to me, but by that law which affected themselves. This measure was moved by an opponent of mine,a and it enacted that I should not return to Rome until those who had so nearly annihilated our world should have returned to life. This proposal of his involved him in a twofold admission: first, that he regretted their death, and second, that the state would be in great peril, if the resurrection of her enemies and assassins should not synchronize with the recall of myself.
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