Cum consul designatus obsideatur, cum in eo liberando salus sit posita rei publicae, cum a populo Romano pestiferi cives parricidaeque desciverint, cumque id bellum geramus quo bello de dignitate, de libertate, de vita decernamus, si in potestatem quis Antoni venerit, proposita sint tormenta atque cruciatus, cumque harum rerum omnium decertatio consulibus optimis et fortissimis commissa et commendata sit, Asiae et Syriae mentio fiet, ut aut suspicioni crimen aut invidiae materiam dedisse videamur?
When a consul-elect is under siege, when the survival of the Republic depends on his release, when pernicious citizens and traitors have defected from the Roman people, when we are fighting a war for dignity, liberty, and life, and whoever falls into Antonius power faces the agonies of torture, when the conflict to determine all these matters has been committed and commended to our excellent and very brave consuls, will there be talk of Asia and Syria, letting us seem to have given a reason for suspicion or a cause for jealousy?
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