Ego meam salutem deserui, ne propter me civium vulneribus res publica cruentaretur: illi meum reditum non populi Romani suffragiis, sed flumine sanguinis intercludendum putaverunt.
I resigned my safety that the state might not on my account be ensanguined with the blood of its citizens; they considered that my return should be barred, not by the votes of the Roman people, but by rivers of blood.
final_alignments\Cicero_Post_Reditum_In_Senatu.json