cuius virtutem iniuriae non fregerunt sed acuerunt, quoniam quidem ipsa nota accensam cupiditatem summi honoris ardentiorem ad comitia detulit, ut populum, quia nobilitatis splendore et animi bonis movere non potuerat, pertinacia vinceret.
Rebuffs did not break his manly spirit but sharpened it. He brought a more ardent desire for the highest office to the voters, fired by the very stigma, so that by pertinacity he vanquished the public since he had not been able to move them by splendour of birth and mental gifts.
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