Consuls, Praetors, Tribunes and my fellow Senators, allow me please to say a few words on the subject of our present crisis...

Our liberty, lives and the Res Publica itself is in peril. And for what I would would have myself ask? To satisfy an ageing, preening fool's ambition? Whether Caesar or Pompey is to blame to starting this war, although I myself do have some feelings on the matter, the point remains, fellow Senators, that we are being terrorised with a view to one man, whoever he may be, setting himself up as a tyrant over our fair city.

To this I say, how far we have fallen to allow such a travesty to come to pass! Now more than ever we must band together and oppose these extremists on both sides. As Marcus Tullius did with Catiline, uniting the orders and the city against a terrible threat, and saving the Republic, now we must show concord and cast these wretches from our wondrous city.

Yes, I have shown my cowardice by not venturing these feelings before. But I am not the only man guilty of this. Senators, I implore you to put aside your differences, Optimate or Populares, and concentrate fully on stopping both our would be Reges.