Si enim tum illi caedis a me initium quaerenti respondere voluissem, nunc rei publicae consulere non possem. Hanc vero nactus facultatem, nullum tempus, patres conscripti, dimittam neque diurnum neque nocturnum quin de libertate populi Romani et dignitate vestra quod cogitandum sit cogitem, quod agendum atque faciendum, id non modo non recusem sed etiam appetam atque deposcam.
If I had elected to answer him then, just when he was looking for an excuse to start a massacre with me, I should be in no position to support the Republic now. But the opportunity has arrived: Members of the Senate, I shall employ every moment of the day and of the night in thinking, insofar as thought is required, of the freedom of the Roman people and of your dignity; I shall not only not recoil from action and activity, where that is called for, but I shall even seek and demand it.
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