ceterum ne illo quidem tam misero tamque luctuoso tempore civitas nostra virtutis suae oblita est: defuncti enim honoribus apertis ianuis in curulibus sellis cum insignibus magistratuum quos gesserant, sacerdotiorumque quae erant adepti, consederunt, ut et ipsi in occasu suo splendorem et ornamenta praeteritae vitae retinerent et plebi ad fortius sustinendos casus suos <exemplum praeberent>.
But even in that time of misery and mourning our community did not forget its valour. The ex-officers of state sat at their open doorways on curule chairs wearing the insignia of the magistracies they had held and the priesthoods to which they had attained, so that in their deaths they retained the splendour and ornaments of their past lives and set the common folk an example of how to bear their fates.
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