I shall not anticipate your gratitude for a favour to be conferred by the state.

From me ye shall have the power of seeking pardon.

The senate will grant to your entreaties such a result, as they shall consider meet." When the Tusculans came to Rome, and the senate [of a people], who were till a little before faithful allies, were seen with sorrowful countenances in the porch of the senate-house, the fathers, immediately moved [at the sight,] even then ordered them to be called in rather in a friendly than a hostile manner.

The Tusculan dictator spoke as follows: "Conscript fathers, we against whom ye proclaimed and made war, just as you see us now standing in the porch of your house, so armed and so attired did we go forth to meet your generals and your legions.

This was our habit, this the habit of our commons; and ever shall be, unless whenever we shall receive arms from you and defence of you.