Now the consulship lies open in common to us patricians and to you plebeians; nor is it, as formerly, the prize of birth, but of valour.

Look forward, therefore, soldiers, to even the highest honour.

Though you, as men, have, with the approbation of the gods, given me this new surname of Corvus, the ancient surname of our family, Publicolae, has not been erased from my memory.

I ever do and ever have cultivated the good will of the Roman commons abroad and at home, as a private man and in public offices, high and low, as tribune equally as when consul, with the same undeviating line of conduct through all my successive consulships.

Now, with respect to that which is at hand, with the aid of the gods, join with me in seeking a new and complete triumph over the Samnites." 33.