Nam importata est, quia defenderam civitatem, et mea voluntate suscepta est, ne a me defensa res publica per eumdem me extremum in  discrimen vocaretur.
Why, the very occasion of those disasters was my defence of the community, and they were faced by me with cheerful readiness, in order that the state which I had defended might not on my account  be brought into the extremest peril.
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