Man. 5.1Maiōrēs nostrī saepe prō mercātōribus aut nāviculāriīs nostrīs iniūriōsius trāctātīs bella gessērunt;Our ancestors often waged wars because our merchants or shipowners had been treated rather unjustly; Man. 5.1vōs tot mīlibus cīvium Rōmānōrum ūnō nūntiō atque ūnō tempore necātīs quō tandem animō esse dēbētis?what spirit, then, ought you to have, when so many thousands of Roman citizens have been killed by a single message and at a single moment? Man. 5.1Lēgātī quod erant appellātī superbius, Corinthum patrēs vestrī tōtīus Graeciae lūmen exstīnctum esse voluērunt;Because their envoys had been addressed rather arrogantly, your fathers wanted Corinth, the light of all Greece, to be extinguished; Man. 5.1vōs eum rēgem inultum esse patiēminī quī lēgātum populī Rōmānī cōnsulārem vinculīs ac verberibus atque omnī suppliciō excruciātum necāvit?will you allow that king to go unpunished who killed an envoy of the Roman people, a man of consular rank, after torturing him with chains and scourges and every kind of torment? Man. 5.1Illī lībertātem imminūtam cīvium Rōmānōrum nōn tulērunt;They would not tolerate the freedom of Roman citizens being curtailed; Man. 5.1vōs ēreptam vītam neglegētis?will you disregard their lives being snatched away?
Man. 5.1Iūs lēgātiōnis verbō violātum illī persecūtī sunt;They avenged the rights of an embassy violated by a word; Man. 5.1vōs lēgātum omnī suppliciō interfectum relinquētis?will you let pass an envoy put to death with every torment? Man. 5.12Vidēte nē, ut illīs pulcherrimum fuit tantam vōbīs imperī glōriam trādere, sīc vōbīs turpissimum sit id quod accēpistis tuērī et cōnservāre nōn posse.Take care that, just as it was most glorious for them to hand down to you so great a glory of empire, it may not be most shameful for you to be unable to protect and preserve what you have received. Man. 5.12Quid?What then? Man. 5.12quod salūs sociōrum summum in perīculum ac discrīmen vocātur, quō id tandem animō ferre dēbētis?when the safety of allies is summoned into the gravest peril and crisis, with what spirit ought you to bear it? Man. 5.12Regnō est expulsus Ariobarzānēs rēx, socius populī Rōmānī atque amīcus;King Ariobarzanes, an ally and friend of the Roman people, has been driven from his kingdom; Man. 5.12imminent duo rēgēs tōtī Asiae nōn sōlum vōbīs inimīcissimī sed etiam vestrīs sociīs atque amīcīs;two kings are threatening the whole of Asia, most hostile not only to you but also to your allies and friends; Man. 5.12cīvitātēs autem omnēs cūnctā Asiā atque Graeciā vestrum auxilium exspectāre propter perīculī magnitūdinem cōguntur;and all the cities throughout Asia and Greece are forced by the size of the danger to look to you for help; Man. 5.12imperātōrem ā vōbīs certum dēposcere, cum praesertim vōs alium mīserītis, neque audent neque id sē facere sine summō perīculō posse arbitrantur.they neither dare to demand a particular commander from you, especially since you have sent another, nor think they can do so without the greatest danger.
Man. 5.13Vident enim et sentiunt hoc idem quod vōs, ūnum virum esse in quō summa sint omnia, et eum propter esse, quō etiam carent aegrius;For they see and feel the same thing as you do, that there is one man in whom all qualities are at their highest, and that he is close at hand, which makes them feel his absence the more keenly; Man. 5.13cuius adventū ipsō atque nōmine, tametsī ille ad maritimum bellum vēnerit, tamen impetūs hostium repressōs esse intellegunt ac retardātōs.and they realise that by his very arrival and name, although he came for the war at sea, the attacks of the enemy have been checked and slowed. Man. 5.13Hī vōs, quoniam līberē loquī nōn licet, tacitī rogant ut sē quoque dignōs exīstimētis quōrum salūtem tālī virō commendētis, atque hōc etiam magis quod cēterās in prōvinciās eius modī hominēs cum imperiō mittimus ut, etiam sī ab hoste dēfendant, tamen ipsōrum adventus in urbis sociōrum nōn multum ab hostīlī expugnātiōne differant, hunc audiēbant anteā, nunc praesentem vident tantā temperantiā, tantā mānsuētūdine, tantā hūmānitāte ut eī beātissimī esse videantur apud quōs ille diūtissimē commorētur.These men, since they may not speak freely, silently ask you to think them also worthy of having their safety entrusted to such a man, and all the more because, whereas into the other provinces we send men with military command of such a kind that, even if they defend them from the enemy, their own arrivals in the cities of the allies differ little from a hostile storming, this man they used to hear of before and now see in person as one of such restraint, such gentleness, such humanity that those with whom he stays longest seem the happiest of all.