Itaque postea nihil vos civibus, nihil sociis, nihil regibus respondistis: nihil iudices sententiis, nihil populus suffragiis, nihil hic ordo auctoritate declaravit: mutum forum, elinguem curiam, tacitam et fractam civitatem videbatis.
Hence it was that from that time citizens, allies, even kings, waited upon you in vain; your juries pronounced no verdicts, your assemblies recorded no votes, your House lent the weight of its authority to no measures; you beheld a forum that was dumb, a senate-house that had lost its tongue, a state that was  voiceless and humbled to the dust.
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