But every multitude is in its nature like the ocean; which, though in itself incapable of motion, is excited by storms and winds.

So, also, in yourselves there is calm and there are storms; but the cause and origin of your fury is entirely attributable to those who led you on; you have caught your madness by contagion.
Nay, even this day you do not appear to me to be aware to what a pitch of phrensy you have proceeded; what a heinous crime you have dared to commit against myself, your country, your parents, your children; against the gods, the witnesses of your oath; against the auspices under which you serve; against the laws of war, the discipline of your ancestors, and the majesty of the highest authority.

With regard to myself, I say nothing.

You may have believed the report of my death rather inconsiderately than eagerly.

Lastly, suppose me to be such a man that it could not at all be a matter of astonishment that my army should be weary of my command, yet what had your country deserved of you, which you betrayed by making common cause with Mandonius and Indibilis?
What the Roman people, when, taking the command from the tribunes appointed by their suffrages, you conferred it on private men?
When, not content even with having them for tribunes, you, a Roman army, conferred the fasces of your general upon men who never had a slave under their command?
Albius and Atrius had their tents in your general's pavilion.