1'Many went out to meet him when he was returning from his province.' 1That is usual for someone standing for the consulship; 1and indeed, who is not met when he comes home? 1'What was that crowd?' 1First, even if I could not give you an account of it, what is there to wonder at in many people having gone out to meet such a man on his arrival, a candidate for the consulship? 1if that had not happened, it would seem more surprising. 69What of this? 69if I were also to add, what is not out of keeping with custom, that many were asked, would it be either criminal or surprising that in a state where, when asked, we regularly come almost before dawn, often from the furthest end of the city, to escort the sons of men of the lowest rank, men should not have been reluctant to go out at the third hour to the Campus Martius, especially when asked in the name of such a man?
69What of this? 69if all the companies came, from whose number many sit here as judges; 69what then? 69if many most honourable men of our order came; 69what then? 69if that whole most dutiful tribe of candidates, which allows no one to enter the city without honour, came, if finally our accuser Postumus himself came to meet him with a pretty large crowd of his own, what is there to wonder at in that crowd? 69I pass over his clients, neighbours, fellow tribesmen, and the whole army of Lucullus, which had come in those days for his triumph; 69this I say, that a crowd rendering this service free of charge has never been lacking to anyone's standing, nor even to anyone's wishes.
69But many followed him about.