But they funded their contributions voluntarily from their jewelry, not from their landed property, their fields, their dowries, or their houses, without which it is impossible for free women to live. Let war with the Celts or Parthians come. We will not be inferior to our mothers when it is a question of common safety. But for civil wars, may we never contribute, nor aid you against each other. We did not pay taxes to Caesar or to Pompey, nor did Marius ask us for contributions, nor Sina, nor Sulla, even though he was a tyrant over this country. And you say that you are reestablishing the republic. Wow, that was quite powerful.