“Who, noble Cato, could pass you by in silence? Or you, Cossus? Or the Gracchi and their kin? Or the two Scipios, 970 both thunderbolts of battle, Libya’s scourge? Or you, Fabricius, reared from poverty into power? Or you, Serranus the Sower, seeding your furrow? You Fabii, where do you rush me, all but spent? And you, famous Maximus, you are the one man whose delaying tactics save our Roman state.
