If this, you dithering fools, is what has become of our senate, then let us either be cast into the cauldron of most violent civil war, or else be ruled by a dictator - one that may keep a degree of focus within these halls!
Some of you are yet old enough to remember, that we decreed we should never be lesser than slight and tunneled men, those such cattle that we do neighbour in the Alps.
Yet these stock do hold more direction and purpose in their teachings and their words, than we, here in our courts of mortar and all luxuries adored, can generate from the meetings of educated men!

There are many here, who do, in their mantles and charismatic smiles, yearn to be thought of as worthy tribunes of the Roman people.
Yet, when they do utter speech from these smirks so vain, it were apt they could be replaced with any from the commonality, and then their position in our Senate be well kept!

We stand about here in expectance of expanding ourselves and our city's influence, but we do not converse in the manner of nobile but in the same dialects I do hear my children play with.

How do we, noble Senators, communicate to this world that our most pristine Rome, and no other, is to be the sovereign of our Italica and beyond, when we can not yet communicate amongst ourselves, here in this forum?