For their part, they will sufficiently honour my memory, if they believe that I was worthy of my ancestors, attentive in providing for your needs, firm in the face of danger, and unafraid to act in the public interest, even with the possibility of incurring dislike.
ego me, patres conscripti, mortalem esse et hominum officia fungi satisque habere si locum principem impleam et vos testor et meminisse posteros volo; qui satis superque memoriae meae tribuent, ut maioribus meis dignum, rerum vestrarum providum, constantem in periculis, offensionum pro utilitate publica non pavidum credant.