At
 present, when we are speaking of the dignity and glory of your empire, since that is the
 beginning of my oration, consider what feelings you think you ought to entertain. 
 Your ancestors have often waged war on account of their merchants and seafaring men having
 been injuriously treated. What ought to be your feelings when so many thousand Roman citizens
 have been put to death by one order and at one time? Because their ambassadors had been spoken
 to with insolence, your ancestors determined that Corinth , the light of all Greece , should
 be destroyed. Will you allow that king to remain unpunished, who has murdered a lieutenant of
 the Roman people of consular rank, having tortured him with chains and scourging, and every sort
 of punishment? They would not allow the freedom of Roman citizens to be diminished; will you be
 indifferent to their lives being taken? They avenged the privileges of our embassy when they
 were violated by a word; will you abandon an ambassador who has been put to death with every
 sort of cruelty?