c. 1.
In my twentieth year,2acting upon my own judgment3and at my own expense,4I raised an army5by means of which I restored to liberty the commonwealth which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction.6On account of this the senate by laudatory decrees admitted me to its order,7in the consulship of Gaius Pansa and Aulus Hirtius, and atthe same time gave me consular rank in the expression of opinion,8and gave me theimperium.9It also voted that I as propraetor,10together with the consuls, should see to it that the commonwealth suffered no harm.11In the same year, moreover, when both consuls had perished in war, the people made me consul,12and triumvir for organizing the commonwealth.13