cum duo consules empti pactione provinciarum auctores se inimicis rei publicae tradidissent, cum egestatem, avaritiam, libidines suas viderent expleri non posse nisi me constrictum domesticis hostibus dedidissent,
The two consuls had been convinced by offers of territories, and had surrendered their authority to the adversaries of the republic. They realized that they could only satisfy their desires for more wealth and pleasure if they handed me over in chains to my enemies who were born within the very household of the state.