Now that I have summed up the whole cause the affair itself and the magnitude of the
 danger, O Caius Aquillius, seem to make it necessary for Publius Quinctius to solicit
 and entreat you and your colleagues, by his old age and his desolate condition, merely
 to follow the dictates or your own nature and goodness; so that as the truth is on his
 side, his necessitous state may move you to pity rather than the influence of the other
 party to cruelty. From the self same day when we came
 before you as judges, we began to disregard all the threats of those men which before we
 were alarmed at. If cause was to contend with cause we are sure that we could easily
 prove ours to any one but as the course of life of the one was to be contested with the
 course of life of the other, we thought we had on that account even more need of you as
 our judge. For this is the very point now in question, whether the rustic and unpolished
 economy of my client can defend itself against the luxury and licentiousness of the
 other or whether, homely as it is, and stripped of all ornaments, it is to lie handed
 over naked to covetousness and wantonness. Publius
 Naevius does not compare himself with you, O Sextus Naevius, he does not vie with you in
 riches or power. He gives up to you all the arts by which you are great; he confesses
 that he does not speak elegantly; that he is not able to say pleasant things to people;
 that he does not abandon a friendship when his friend is in distress, and fly off to
 another which is in flourishing circumstances; that he does not give magnificent and
 splendid banquets; that he has not a house closed against modesty and holiness, but open
 and as it were exposed to cupidity and debauchery; on the other hand he says that duty,
 good faith, industry and a life which has been always austere and void of pleasure has
 been his choice; he knows that the opposite course is more fashionable, and that by such
 habits people have more influence. What then shall be done?