Wait till your mothers and wives come out to meet you from the city with dishevelled hair, as they did formerly to Coriolanus.

At that time the legions of the Volscians, because they had a Roman for their leader, ceased from hostilities; will not ye, a Roman army, desist from an unnatural war?
Titus Quinctius, under whatever circumstances you stand on that side, whether voluntarily or reluctantly, if there must be fighting, do you then retire to the rear.

With more honour even will you fly, and turn your back to your countryman, than fight against your country.

Now you will stand with propriety and honour among the foremost to promote peace; and may you be a salutary agent in this conference.
Require and offer that which is just; though we should admit even unjust terms, rather than engage in an impious combat with each other." Titus Quinctius, turning to his party with his eyes full of tears, said, "In me too, soldiers, if there is any use of me, ye have a better leader for peace than for war.

For that speech just now delivered, not a Volscian, nor a Samnite expressed, but a Roman: your own consul, your own general, soldiers: whose auspices having already experienced for you, do not wish to experience them against you.