c. 1.
In my twentieth year,[2] acting upon my own judgment[3] and at my own expense,[4] I raised an army[5] by means of which I restored to liberty the commonwealth which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction.[6] On account of this the senate by laudatory decrees admitted me to its order,[7] in the consulship of Gaius Pansa and Aulus Hirtius, and at the same time gave me consular rank in the expression of opinion,[8] and gave me the imperium.[9] It also voted that I as propraetor,[10] together with the consuls, should see to it that the commonwealth suffered no harm.[11] In the same year, moreover, when both consuls had perished in war, the people made me consul,[12] and triumvir for organizing the commonwealth.[13]