And Publius Sextius following the same line of conduct with equal virtue, courage, and
 loyalty, thought that there were no enmities, no efforts of violence, no attacks, no dangers
 even to his life, which it became him to shun, in defence of my safety, of your authority, and
 of the constitution of the state. He, by his diligence, so recommended the cause of the
 senate, thrown into disorder as it was by the harangues of wicked men, to the multitude, that
 your name soon became the most popular of all names, your authority the object of the greatest
 affection to all men. He defended me by every means that a tribune of the people could employ;
 and supported me by every sort of kind attention, just as if he had been my own brother; by
 his clients, and freedmen, and household, and resources, and letters, I was so much supported,
 that he seemed to be not only my assistant under, but my partner in calamity. Now you have seen the kindness and zeal of the others; how devoted to me was
 Caius Cestilius, how attached to you, how uniformly faithful to our cause. What did Marcus
 Cispius do? I know how much I owe to him and to his father and brother; and they, though they
 had some personal grudge against me on their own private account, still disregarded their
 private dislike out of recollection of my services to the state. Also, Titus Fadius, who was
 my quaestor, and Marcus Curtius, to whose father I was quaestor, cherished the memory of our
 connection with all zeal, and affection, and courage. Caius Messius made many speeches in my
 behalf, for the sake both of our friendship and of the republic. And he at the beginning
 proposed a special law respecting my safety. If Quintus Fabricius could only have effected, in spite of violence and arms, what he
 endeavoured to do in my behalf, we should have recovered our position in the month of January.
 His own inclination prompted him to labour for my safety, violence checked him, your authority
 recalled him. 
 Of what disposition towards me the praetors were, you were able to
 form an opinion when Lucius Caecilius, in his private character, laboured to support me from
 his own resources, and in his public capacity proposed a law respecting my safety, in concert
 with all his colleagues, and refused the plunderers of my property permission to support their
 actions by legal proceedings. But Marcus Calidius, the moment he was elected, showed by his
 vote how dear my safety was to him. Caius Septimius, Quintus Valerius, Publius Crassus, Sextus Quintilius, and Caius Cornutus,
 all devoted all their energies to the promotion of my interests and those of the republic.
 And while I gladly make mention of these things, I am not unwilling
 to pass over the wicked actions done by some people with a view to injure me. It is not suited
 to my fortunes at present to remember injuries, which, even if I were able to revenge them, I
 still would rather forget. All my life is to be devoted to a different object: to that of
 showing my gratitude to those who have deserved well of me; to preserving those friendships
 which have been tried in the fire; to waging war against my open enemies; to pardoning my
 timid friends; to avoiding the showing those who deserted me any indignation at having been
 forced to leave the city; to console those who promoted my return by a proper display of my
 dignity.