M. Tullius Cicero, Speech before Roman Citizens on Behalf of Gaius Rabirius, Defendant Against the Charge of Treason
William Blake Tyrrell, Ed.

[22] As for you, Labienus, pray tell, what would you have done in such a crisis? When calculations of cowardice were urging you into flight and into a hidey-hole, when the depravity and mad rage of Lucius Saturninus were beckoning you to come to the Capitolium, when the consuls were summoning you to the security and liberty of the fatherland, just what authority, what voice, whose path would you have preferred to follow, whose command would you have preferred to obey? “My uncle,” you reply, “was with Saturninus.” What? With whom was your father? Your kinsmen, the Roman knights? What about all your prefecture, your region, your neighborhood? What about it? Did the whole territory of Picenum follow the tribune's madness or the authority of the consuls?