is afraid.—He who has received on his front all these scars, marks of his valour, in the cause
 of the republic, fears to receive any wound on his reputation. He, whom no attack of an enemy
 could ever move from his post, now is frightened at this onset of his fellow-citizens, to which
 he must necessarily yield. Nor does he now ask of you an
 opportunity of living happily, but only one of dying honourably. He is anxious now, not to enjoy
 his own home, but not to be deprived of his family tomb. He now begs and prays for nothing else
 at your hands, beyond your abstaining from depriving him of his legitimate funeral rites, and of
 the privilege of dying at home. He entreats you to allow him who has never feared any danger of
 death in his country's cause, in that country to die. I have spoken now to the extent of the time allowed me by the tribune of the people. I beg and
 entreat of you to think this defence which I have made faithful as far as the danger of my
 friend is concerned, and as far as the safety of the republic is at stake, suited to the
 dignity, and to the duty of the consul.