Ab urbe condita

Why do we not lay aside all resentment and ambitious hopes —those treacherous advisers — and trust ourselves and all our interests to his tried fidelity?”

There was a universal shout of approval, and T. Quinctius advancing to the front asserted that his men would submit to the authority of the Dictator. He implored Valerius to take up the cause of his unhappy fellow-citizens, and when he had taken it up to maintain it with the same integrity that he had always shown in his public administration.