Nondum palam factum erat occidisse rem publicam, cum tibi arbitria funeris solvebantur: uno eodemque tempore domus mea diripiebatur, ardebat, bona ad vicinum consulem de Palatio, de Tusculano ad item vicinum alterum consulem deferebantur; cum iisdem operis suffragium ferentibus, eodem gladiatore latore, vacuo non modo a bonis, sed etiam a liberis atque inani foro, ignaro populo Romano quid ageretur, senatu vero oppresso et adflicto, duobus impiis nefariisque consulibus aerarium, provinciae, legiones, imperia donabantur.
The decease of the state had not yet been noised abroad, when the funeral expensesd were already being paid out to you. At one and the same moment my house was being plundered, was ablaze; the contents of that on the Palatine were being made over to the consul,a my neighbour, and those of my villa at Tusculum to the other consul,b also my neighbour; while, by a measure which was voted upon by the same gangs that had served you before, and introduced by the same gladiator, when the forum was empty and deserted not merely by men of sound views but even by free men, and when the Roman people were in the dark as to what was going forward, and when the senate was crushed and humiliated, two abominable and lawless consuls were being presented with the treasury,the provinces, the legions, and the posts of supreme command.
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