Capuaene te putabas, in qua urbe domicilium quondam superbiae fuit, consulem esse, sicut eras eo tempore, an Romae: in qua civitate omnes ante vos consules senatui paruerunt? Tu es ausus in circo Flaminio, productus cum tuo illo pare, dicere te semper misericordem fuisse? quo verbo senatum atque omnes bonos tum, quum a patria pestem depellerent, crudeles demonstrabas fuisse.
Did you think you were consul of Capua (as indeed you werea at this time), a city wherein arrogance had once her dwelling, or of Rome, a state wherein all consuls before you have bowed to the will of the senate? When you were introduced in the Circus of Flaminius with your noble partner, did you dare to assert that you had always been of a compassionate nature?'an expression wherein you clearly intimated that the senate and all good patriots had been hardhearted men when they cleansed their country of a plague-spot.
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