Non enim ille deprecatione rediit, sed in discessu civium exercitu se armisque revocavit: at me nudum a propinquis, nulla cognatione munitum, nullo armorum ac tumultus metu, C. Pisonis, generi mei, divina quaedam et inaudita auctoritas atque virtus fratrisque miserrimi atque optimi cotidianae lacrimae sordesque lugubres a vobis deprecatae sunt.
his recall was not the result of intercession, but upon the departure of certain citizensa he recalled himself with the aid of armed forces. I, on the other hand, was bereft of my kinsfolk; I had no influential connexions, no menace of armed rising to back my cause; and it was only the divine and unparalleled influence wielded by my son-in-law Gaius Piso, and his lofty qualities, together with the assiduous tears and sorrowful guise of my heart-broken and affectionate brother, that  interceded to you for me.
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