Neque enim adhuc ignavia quadam et insito torpore cessavimus: terror et metus et misera illa ex periculis facta prudentia monebat, ut a re publica (ubi erat autem omnino res publica?) oculos aures animos averteremus.
for our previous hesitation was due to no cowardice or natural inertia, but to fear and apprehension, and the lamentable caution born of our perils which bade us turn eyes and ears and minds from our country, from that republic which was utterly destroyed.
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