1. Ante Carthāginem dēlētam populus Rōmanus vītam placidam ac modestam [< modus] agitābat [= agēbat].
2. Formīdō [= terror] hostium cīvēs in bonīs artibus [= mōribus] retinēbat.
3. Victīs hostibus, ob abundantiam [= nimiam cōpiam] omnium rērum, lascīvia [= licentia] atque superbia incessērunt.
4. Glōriae et dominātiōnis [< dominārī] certāmen inter cīvēs erat, omnia in duās partēs abstracta [= distracta] sunt, rēs pūblica dīlacerāta [= lacerandō distracta].
5. Nōbilitās [= cīvēs nōbilēs] factiōne magis pollēbat [= valēbat], penes eōsdem magistrātūs, glōriae triumphīque erant.
6. Plēbs, quae in multitūdine dispersa [= passim sparsa] minus poterat, asperā [= molestā] mīlitiā atque inopiā urgēbātur.
7. Praedās bellicās [< bellum] imperātōrēs cum paucīs dīripiēbant [= rapiēbant].
8. Parentēs et līberī mīlitum, sī cōnfīnēs [= fīnitimī] erant cīvī potentiōrī, sēdibus pellēbantur.
9. Avāritia sine modestiā [< modestus] omnia invādere et polluere [= sordida facere] coepit.
10. At paucī nōbilēs repertī sunt quī vēram glōriam iniūstae potentiae antepōnerent [= praeferrent].
11. Postquam Ti. et C. Gracchus plēbem in lībertātem vindicāre [= līberāre] et optimātium scelera patefacere coepērunt, nōbilitās noxia [<> īnsōns] ac pavida eōrum āctiōnibus [< agere] obviam iērunt.
12. Ita dissēnsiō [= discordia] cīvīlis quasi permixtiō [< permiscēre] terrae orta est, et prīmum necātus est Tiberius, deinde Gāius cum M. Fulviō Flaccō.
13. Nōbilitās victōriā suā ūsa haud moderāta [< modus] fuit.
14. In bellō cīvīlī alterī alterōs quōvīs [= quōlibet] modō vincere vult, id quod saepe magnās cīvitātēs pessum dedit [= perdidit].