Audeo etiam obligare fidem meam, patres conscripti, vobis populoque Romano reique publicae; quod profecto <pro alio>, cum me nulla vis cogeret, facere non auderem pertimesceremque in maxima re periculosam opinionem temeritatis.
I even dare to pledge my word, Members of the Senate, to you and to the Roman people and to the Republic'and that is something that I obviously should not dare to do in the case of someone else, since no force compels me; I would be afraid of earning the dangerous reputation of rashness in so great a business.
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