Accordingly, Romans, we may be protected even by the shadow of your aid: whatever after this we shall possess, whatever we ourselves shall be, determined to consider all that as yours.

For you the Campanian field shall be ploughed; for you the city of Capua shall be made populous; you shall be to us in the light of founders, parents, ay, even immortal gods.

There shall be no colony of your own which shall surpass us in attachment and loyalty to you.

Grant to the Campanians, conscript fathers, your nod, and your irresistible favour, and bid us hope that Capua will be safe.

With what crowds of persons of all classes attending us do you suppose that we set out from thence--how, think you, did we leave every place full of vows and tears?
In what a state of expectation do you suppose that the senate are, the Campanian nation, our wives and our children?
I am certain that the entire multitude are standing at the gates, looking forward to the road that leads from hence, anxious as to what answer you may order us, conscript fathers, to bring back to them, in their solicitude and suspense of mind.