Hoc igitur fretus senatu Pompeianum senatum despicit, in quo decem fuimus consulares: qui si omnes viverent, bellum omnino hoc non fuisset; auctoritati cessisset audacia.
Relying then upon this senate, he despises the Pompeian senate, which included ten of us consulars. If all of them were alive, this war would never have taken place; audacity would have yielded to authority.
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