country? or soldiers, who have rejected the command and authority of your general, and violated the solemn obligation of your oath?  Can I call you enemies?  I recognise the persons, faces, dress, and mien of fellow countrymen; but I perceive the actions, expressions, intentions, and feelings of enemies.  For what have you wished and hoped for, but what the Ilergetians and Lacetanians did.  Yet they followed Mandonius and Indibilis, men of royal rank, who were the leaders of their mad project; you conferred the auspices and command upon the Umbrian, Atrius, and the Calenian, Albius.  Deny, soldiers, that you were all concerned in this measure, or that you approved of it when taken.  I shall willingly believe, when you disclaim it, that it was the folly and madness of a few.  For the acts which have been committed are of such a nature, that, if the whole army participated in them, they could not be expiated without atonements of tremendous magnitude.  Upon these points, like wounds, I touch with reluctance; but unless touched and handled, they cannot be cured.  For my own part, I believed that, after the Carthaginians were expelled from Spain, there was not a place in the whole province where, or any persons to whom, my life was obnoxious; such was the manner in which I had conducted myself, not only towards my allies, but even towards my enemies.  But lo, even in my own camp, so much was I deceived in my opinion, the report of my death was not only readily believed, but anxiously waited for.  Not that I wish to implicate you all in this enormity; for, be assured, if I supposed that the whole of my army desired my death, I would here immediately expire before your eyes; nor could I take any pleasure in a life which was odious to my countrymen and my soldiers.  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