GetPassage urn:cts:latinLit:phi0914.phi001.perseus-eng3:8.7.15-8.7.16 urn:cts:latinLit:phi0914.phi001.perseus-eng3:8.7.15-8.7.16

the authority of a consul or the obedience due to a father, and in defiance of our edict have left your post to fight against

the enemy, and have done your best to destroy the military discipline through which the Roman State has stood till now unshaken, and have forced upon me the necessity of forgetting either my duty to the republic or my duty to myself and my children, it is better that we should