cum duo consules empti pactione provinciarum auctores se inimicis rei publicae tradidissent, cum egestatem, avaritiam, libidines suas viderent expleri non posse nisi me constrictum domesticis hostibus dedidissent,
the two consuls had been bought over by promises of provinces, and had laid their powers at the disposal of the enemies of the republic, seeing that their lack of resources, their greed, and their lust could only be sated if they gave me up in fetters to foes bred in the states own household;
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