It was for me, as your Consul, to bring the facts before you.

Now it is for you, at once, before night, to decide what shall be done.

The conspirators are very many; it is not only with these few that you are dealing.

On whatever you decide, decide quickly.

Caesar tells you of the Sempronian law[210]--the law, namely, forbidding the death of a Roman citizen--but can he be regarded as a citizen who has been found in arms against the city ?" Then there is a fling at Caesar's assumed clemency, showing us that Caesar had already endeavored to make capital out of that virtue which he displayed afterward so signally at Alesia and Uxellodunum.