Our injuries she cannot avenge, nor can any but yourselves avenge them, conscript fathers.

To you, and to your honour, we fly, as suppliants.

It makes no difference to us whether you suffer Locri to be subject to that lieutenant-general and that garrison, or whether you deliver us up for punishment to incensed Hannibal and the Carthaginians.

We do not request that you should at once believe us respecting one who is absent, and when the cause has not been heard.

Let him come; let him hear our charges in person, and refute them himself.