[-33-] “So then, seeing that you have detected his baneful disposition in so many and so great enterprises, will you not take vengeance on him instead of waiting to learn by experience what the man who caused so much trouble naked will do to you when he is armed?  Do you think that he is not eager for the tyrant’s power, that he does not pray to obtain it some day, or that he will put the pursuit of it out of his thoughts, when he has once allowed it a resting-place in his mind, and that he will ever abandon the hope of sole rulership for which he has spoken and acted so impudently without punishment!  What human being who, while master of his own voice, would undertake to help some one else secure an honor, would not appropriate it himself when he became powerful?  Who that has dared to nominate another as tyrant over his country and himself at once would himself refuse to be monarch? [-34-] Hence, even if you spared him formerly, you must hate him now for these acts.  Do not desire to learn what he will do when his success equals his wishes, but on the basis of his previous ventures plan beforehand to suffer no further outrages.  What defence could any one make of what took place?  That Caesar acted rightly at that time in accepting neither the name of king nor the diadem?  If so, this man did wrong to offer something which pleased not even Caesar.  Or, on the other hand, that the latter erred in enduring at all to look on at and listen to such proceedings?  If so, and Caesar justly suffered death for this error, does not this man, admitted in a certain way that he desired a tyranny, most richly deserve to perish?  That this is so is evident from what I have previously said, but is proved most clearly by what he did after that.  What other end than supremacy had he in mind that he has undertaken to cause agitation and to meddle in private business, when he might have enjoyed quiet with safety?  What other end, that he has entered upon campaigns and warfare, when it was in his power to remain at home without danger?  For what reason, when many have disliked to go out and take charge even of the offices that belonged to them, does he not only lay claim to Gaul, which pertains to him in not the slightest degree, but use force upon it because of its unwillingness?  For what reason, when Decimus Brutus is ready to surrender to us himself and his soldiers and the cities, has this man not imitated him, instead of besieging and shutting him up?  The only interpretation to be put upon it is that he is strengthening himself in this and every other way against us, and to no other end.

[-35-] “Seeing this, do we delay and give way to weakness and train up so monstrous a tyrant against our own selves?  Is it not disgraceful that our forefathers, brought up in slavery, felt the desire for liberty, but we who have lived under an independent government become slaves of our own free will?  Or again, that we were glad to rid ourselves of the dominion of Caesar, though we had first received many