# De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 56

Cicero, De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices, 56. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/cicero/de-domo-sua-ad-pontifices/56

quid igitur ego cessi, aut qui timor fuit? non dicam in me: fac me timidum esse natura: quid? illa tot virorum fortissimorum milia, quid? nostri equites Romani, quid? senatus, quid? denique omnes boni, si nulla erat vis, cur me flentes potius prosecuti sunt quam aut increpantes retinuerunt aut irati reliquerunt? an hoc timebam, si mecum ageretur more institutoque maiorum, ut possem praesens sustinere?

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Cicero, De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices, ed. William Peterson. Text: the Perseus Digital Library, canonical-latinLit, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-latinLit/blob/master/data/phi0474/phi020/phi0474.phi020.perseus-lat2.xml.