Cicero's Defense of Milon

Extract

[...] Cicero For I saw, I saw this very Quintus Hortensius, the light and ornament of the republic, almost killed by the hand of slaves, when he was assisting me; in that tumult, Gaius Vibienus, a senator and a good man, who was with him, was so beaten that he lost his life. And so, when did that dagger of his, which he had received from Catiline, ever rest? It was aimed at us, and I did not allow you to be thrown against me in its place; it lay in wait for Pompey ( . and after a long interval, it turned again towards me; recently, as you know, it nearly finished me off at the royal palace. [...]

[...] For I saw, I saw this very Quintus Hortensius, the light and ornament of the republic, almost killed by the hand of slaves, when he was assisting me; in that tumult, Gaius Vibienus, a senator and a good man, who was with him, was so beaten that he lost his life. And so, when did that dagger of his, which he had received from Catiline, ever rest? It was aimed at us, and I did not allow you to be thrown against me in its place; it lay in wait for Pompey ( . and after a long interval, it turned again towards me; recently, as you know, it nearly finished me off at the royal palace. [...]