O miserum te, si haec intellegis, miseriorem, si non intellegis hoc litteris mandari, hoc memoriae prodi, huius rei ne posteritatem quidem omnium saeculorum umquam immemorem fore, <propter unum te> consules ex Italia expulsos, cumque eis Cn. Pompeium, quod imperi populi Romani decus ac lumen fuit, omnis consularis qui per valetudinem exsequi cladem illam fugamque potuissent, praetores, praetorios, tribunos plebis, magnam partem senatus, omnem subolem iuventutis, uno[que] verbo rem publicam expulsam atque exterminatam suis sedibus!
Oh you wretched fellow, if you realize this! More wretched still, if you do not realize that it is being recorded by historians, that it is being handed down to memory, that even all ages to come will never cease to recall this fact, namely, that on your sole account the consuls were driven from Italy, and with them Gnaeus Pompeius, the pride and ornament of the Roman peoples empire, as well as all consulars whose health allowed them to follow that disastrous exodus, the praetors, the praetorians, the tribunes of the plebs, a large part of the senate, all our rising youth'that in a word the Republic was driven out, banished from its home.
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