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

[30] Wherefore, I call to witness the minds of Gaius Marius and of the other very wise and brave citizen which seem to me to have emigrated from the life of men to the hallowed sacredness of gods, that I think that we must sally forth in defense of the fame, the glory, and the memory of those men just as for the temples and sanctuaries of our fatherland, and that, if I had to take up weapons on behalf of the reputation of those men, I would do so no less vigorously than those men took up weapons on behalf of the common welfare. Indeed, Roman citizens, nature has delineated a far too brief course for our lives but one unbounded for our glory.