Nisi forte nondum etiam vos dominationis eorum satietas tenet et illa quam haec tempora magis placent, quom regna, provinciae, leges, iura, iudicia, bella atque paces, postremo divina et humana omnia penes paucos erant; vos autem, hoc est populus Romanus, invicti ab hostibus, imperatores omnium gentium, satis habebatis animam retinere; nam servitutem quidem quis vostrum recusare audebat? Atque ego, tametsi viro flagitiosissumum existumo inpune iniuriam accepisse, tamen vos hominibus sceleratissumis ignoscere, quoniam cives sunt, aequo animo paterer, ni misericordia in perniciem casura esset.
Unless, by chance, you do not even yet feel sated with their domination, and present circumstances are less to your liking than the past when kingdoms, provinces, statutes, laws, courts, war and peace, in short all things human and divine, were in the hands of a few; when, furthermore, you, that is to say the Roman people, unconquered by your enemies, rulers of all nations, were content to retain the mere breath of life. For which of you dared to refuse slavery? For my own part, although I consider it most shameful for a true man to suffer wrong without taking vengeance, nevertheless I could calmly allow you to pardon those most criminal of men, inasmuch as they are your fellow citizens, if that mercy would not result in ruin.
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