Quo die primum convocati sumus, cum designati consules non adessent, ieci sententia mea maximo vestro consensu fundamenta rei publicae, serius omnino quam decuit'nec enim ante potui'sed tamen, si ex eo tempore dies nullus intermissus esset, bellum profecto nullum haberemus.
As soon as we were convoked, in the absence of the consuls-elect, I put forward a proposal by which I laid the foundations of the Republic, with your greatest assent. It is true that it was later than it should have been'for I had no earlier opportunity'; but if no day had been lost from that time forward, it is pretty clear that we should not have a war on our hands.
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