ABSTRACT
How long shall you remain ignorant of your strength, O Romans, when Nature intended not even the savages of the desarts themselves, such a torpid, half-animted state of passive ignorance? Only consider your numerical powers;— and, at the same time, reflect how few your mortal enemies are. Did they even equal you in numbers, and had you to encounter them, man to man, still were I confident that you would contend more resolutely for Freedom, than your oppressors for Tyranny.’ Livy.
