The next night, when it was near day-break, the slaves of Publius Fabius come armed and in
 crowds to that house which I have already mentioned, which was in the Popilian field. They
 make themselves an entrance by force. They attack the slaves of Marcus Tullius, men of great
 value, unawares, which was very easy to do; and as these were few in number and offered no
 resistance, they, being a numerous body well armed and prepared, murdered them. And they
 behaved with such rancour and cruelty that they left them all with their throats cut, lest, if
 they left any one only half dead and still breathing, they should get the less credit. And
 besides this, they demolish the house and villa. Philinus,
 whom I have already mentioned, and who had himself escaped from the massacre severely wounded,
 immediately reports this atrocious, this infamous, this unexpected attack to Marcus Tullius.
 Tullius immediately sends round to his friends, of whom in that neighbourhood he had a
 numerous and honourable body. The matter appears scandalous
 and infamous to them all. 
 Listen, I entreat you, to the evidence of honest men touching those affairs which I am
 speaking of those things which my witnesses state, our adversary confesses that they state
 truly. Those things which my witnesses do not state, because they have not seen them and do
 not know them, those things our adversary himself states. Our witnesses say that they saw the
 men lying dead; that they saw blood in many places; that they saw the building demolished.
 They say nothing further. What says Fabius? He denies none of these things. What then further
 does he add? He says that his own household of slaves did
 it. How? By men armed, with violence. With what intention? That that might be done which was
 done. What is that? That the men of Marcus Tullius might be slain. If, then, they contrived
 all these circumstances with this intention, so that men assembled in one place, and armed
 themselves, and then marched with fixed resolution to an appointed place, chose a suitable
 time, and committed a massacre,—if they intended all this and planned it, and
 effected it,—can you separate that intention, that design, and that act from malice?