Laudator Temporis Acti

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 7.31.2-3 (tr. Earnest Cary):

[2] Would you not become indignant and complain that you were treated outrageously if anyone deprives you of your freedom of speech and of your liberty by threatening to visit the extreme penalty upon any who have spoken frankly in behalf of the people? [3] You cannot deny that you would. Then do you think it reasonable that others should bear what you yourselves would not submit to?

[2] ἆρ᾽ οὐκ ἂν ἀγανακτήσαιτε καὶ δεινὰ φαίητε πάσχειν, εἰ τὴν παρρησίαν ἀφαιρήσεταί τις ὑμᾶς καὶ τὴν ἐλευθερίαν, τὸν ὑπὲρ τῶν ἐσχάτων κίνδυνον ἐπιθεὶς τοῖς ἐλευθέραν φωνὴν ὑπὲρ τοῦ δήμου φθεγξαμένοις; [3] οὐκ ἔνεστ᾽ ἄλλως εἰπεῖν. ἔπειθ᾽ ἃ παθεῖν οὐκ ἂν ὑπομείναιτε αὐτοί, ταῦθ᾽ ἑτέρους πάσχοντας ἀνέχεσθαι δικαιοῦτε;

Id. 7.31.4:

Follow my advice, moderate your behaviour, and bear as fellow-citizens should, rather than with ill humour, the words which give you offence.

ἐμοὶ συμβούλῳ χρησάμενοι μετριάσατε καὶ τοὺς λόγους, ἐφ᾽ οἷς ἄχθεσθε, πολιτικῶς καὶ μὴ δυσοργήτως ἐνέγκατε.