Nolui, cum consul communem salutem sine ferro defendissem, meam privatus armis defendere, bonosque viros lugere malui meas fortunas quam suis desperare: ac si solus essem interfectus, mihi turpe, si cum multis, rei publicae funestum fore videbatur.
Since, as consul, I had looked for no assistance from the sword in my championship of the universal welfare, I shrank from employing arms in the defence of my own; and I preferred that the patriotic party should lament my condition rather than despair for their own.
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