“But perhaps they would have proceeded to attack me.” This, in their
 desperate case, is neither a speech nor a defence, but a mere guess, a sort of divination.
 Were they coming to attack him? Whom? Fabius. With what intention? To kill him. Why? to gain
 what? how did you find it out? And that I may set forth a plain case as briefly as possible,
 is it possible to doubt, O judges, which side seems to have been the attacking
 party?—