Gaius Scribonius Curio

In truth, if you had done so, you would more have consulted your own character and your reputation for charity.

But you did not do so, nor, if you had wished it, could Gaius Curio ever have suffered you to do so.

You have said that you retired in my favor for the contest for the augurship.

Oh, the incredible audacity! Oh, the monstrous impudence of such an assertion! For, at the time when Gnaeus Pompeius and Quintus Hortensius named me as an augur, after I had been wished for by the whole college, for it was not lawful for me to be put in nomination by more than two members of the college, you were notoriously insolvent.

And although he in no respect deserves to be considered a consul, whether we regard his way of life, or his principle of governing the republic, or the manner in which he was elected, I am beyond all dispute a man of consular rank.

That therefore you might understand what sort of consul he professed himself to be, he reproached me with my consulship, a consulship which, O conscript fathers, was in name indeed mine, but in reality Yours.

For what did I determine? What did I contrive? What did I do that was not determined, contrived, or done by the counsel and authority, and in accordance with the sentiments of this order? And have you, O wise men, O men not merely eloquent, dared to find fault with these actions before the very men by whose counsel and wisdom they were performed? But who was ever found before, except Publius Clodius, to find fault with my consulship? And his fate indeed awaits you, as it also awaited Gaius Curio, since that is now in your house which was fatal to each of them.

Marcus Antonius disapproves of my consulship, but it was approved of by Publius Servilius, to name that man first of the men of consular rank who had died most recently.

In the spring of 50 BC, Pompey seemed to indicate his support for a proposal to extend Caesar's term to November, enabling him to be elected consul for the following year, return to Rome and hold a triumph at the end of the year.

However, the proposal was blocked by the Tribune, Scribonius Curio, who had recently become Caesar's ally, indicating that Caesar did not trust Pompey's intentions.

At various times, both Caesar and Pompey suggested that both should agree to lay down their commands, but neither could feel secure without an army backing them.

By the end of the year, with rumors abounding that Caesar was marching south towards Rome, in violation of the law, the generals could not bring legions into Italy south of the river Rubicon.

In truth, if you had done so, you would more have consulted your own character and your reputation for charity.

But you did not do so, nor, if you had wished it, could Gaius Curio ever have suffered you to do so.

You have said that you retired in my favor for the contest for the augurship.

Oh, the incredible audacity! Oh, the monstrous impudence of such an assertion! For, at the time when Gnaeus Pompeius and Quintus Hortensius named me as an augur, after I had been wished for by the whole college, for it was not lawful for me to be put in nomination by more than two members of the college, you were notoriously insolvent.

And although he in no respect deserves to be considered a consul, whether we regard his way of life, or his principle of governing the republic, or the manner in which he was elected, I am beyond all dispute a man of consular rank.

That therefore you might understand what sort of consul he professed himself to be, he reproached me with my consulship, a consulship which, O conscript fathers, was in name indeed mine, but in reality yours.

For what did I determine? What did I contrive? What did I do that was not determined, contrived, or done by the counsel and authority, and in accordance with the sentiments of this order? And have you, O wise men, O men not merely eloquent, dared to find fault with these actions before the very men by whose counsel and wisdom they were performed? But who was ever found before, except Publius Clodius, to find fault with my consulship? And his fate indeed awaits you, as it also awaited Gaius Curio, since that is now in your house which was fatal to each of them.

Marcus Antonius disapproves of my consulship, but it was approved of by Publius Servilius, to name that man first of the men of consular rank who had died most recently.

In truth, if you had done so, you would more have consulted your own character and your reputation for charity.

But you did not do so, nor, if you had wished it, could Gaius Curio ever have suffered you to do so.

You have said that you retired in my favor for the contest for the augurship.

Oh, the incredible audacity! Oh, the monstrous impudence of such an assertion! For, at the time when Gnaeus Pompeius and Quintus Hortensius named me as an augur, after I had been wished for by the whole college—for it was not lawful for me to be put in nomination by more than two members of the college—you were notoriously insolvent; nor did you think it possible for your safety to be secured by any other means than by the destruction of the republic.

And although he in no respect deserves to be considered a consul, whether we regard his way of life, or his principle of governing the republic, or the manner in which he was elected, I am beyond all dispute a man of consular rank.

That, therefore, you might understand what sort of consul he professed himself to be, he reproached me with my consulship, a consulship which, O conscript fathers, was in name indeed mine, but in reality yours.

For what did I determine, what did I contrive, what did I do that was not determined, contrived, or done by the counsel and authority, and in accordance with the sentiments of this order? And have you, O wise men, O men not merely eloquent, dared to find fault with these actions before the very men by whose counsel and wisdom they were performed? But who was ever found before, except Publius Clodius, to find fault with my consulship? And his fate indeed awaits you, as it also awaited Gaius Curio, since that is now in your house which was fatal to each of them.

Marcus Antonius disapproves of my consulship, but it was approved of by Publius Servilius, to name that man first of the men of consular rank who had died most recently.

In truth, if you had done so, you would more have consulted your own character and your reputation for charity.

But you did not do so, nor, if you had wished it, could Gaius Curio ever have suffered you to do so.

You have said that you retired in my favor for the contest for the augurship.

Oh, the incredible audacity! Oh, the monstrous impudence of such an assertion! For, at the time when Gnaeus Pompeius and Quintus Hortensius named me as an augur, after I had been wished for by the whole college, for it was not lawful for me to be put in nomination by more than two members of the college, you were notoriously insolvent.

And although he in no respect deserves to be considered a consul, whether we regard his way of life, or his principle of governing the republic, or the manner in which he was elected, I am beyond all dispute a man of consular rank.

That therefore you might understand what sort of consul he professed himself to be, he reproached me with my consulship, a consulship which, O conscript fathers, was in name indeed mine, but in reality yours.

For what did I determine, what did I contrive, what did I do that was not determined, contrived, or done by the counsel and authority, and in accordance with the sentiments of this order? And have you, O wise men, O men not merely eloquent, dared to find fault with these actions before the very men by whose counsel and wisdom they were performed? But who was ever found before, except Publius Clodius, to find fault with my consulship? And his fate indeed awaits you, as it also awaited Gaius Curio, since that is now in your house which was fatal to each of them.

Marcus Antonius disapproves of my consulship, but it was approved of by Publius Servilius, to name that man first of the men of consular rank who had died most recently.