If so many examples of courage did not move you, nothing ever will.

If so great a carnage did not make life less dear, none ever will.

While in freedom and safety, show your affection for your country; nay, rather do so while it is your country, and you its citizens.

Too late you now endeavour to evince your regard for her when degraded, disfranchised from the rights of citizens, and become the slaves of the Carthaginians.

Shall you return by purchase to that degree which you have forfeited by cowardice and neglect?
You did not listen to Sempronius, your countryman, when he bid you take arms and follow him; but a little after you listened to Hannibal, when he ordered your arms to be surrendered, and your camp betrayed.