"Let them suspect.

They suspect because they know what they have deserved.

What have they done for Rome ?--What for mankind?
Ask the citizens--ask the provinces.

Have they had any other object than to perpetuate their own exclusive power, and to keep us under the yoke of an oligarchical tyranny, which unites in itself the worst evils of every other system, and combines more than Athenian turbulence with more than Persian despotism ?" "Good Gods! Caesar.

It is not safe for you to speak, or for us to listen to, such things, at such a crisis." "Judge for yourselves what you will hear.