But if ye ever wished for an opportunity of sharing in the government, and enjoying freedom, lo! this opportunity is now at hand, presented both by your own valour and the bounty of the gods.

Ye have tried their patience by refusing them soldiers.

Who doubts that they were fired with rage, when we broke through a custom of more than two hundred years?
Still they submitted to this feeling of resentment.

We waged war with the Pelignians in our own name.

They who formerly did not even concede to us the right of defending our own territories through ourselves, interfered not.