hic quoque in eo campo cuius postea dominus exstitit repulsa praeturae suggillatus est, omnia loca petiti honoris, si quis modo deorum formam et imaginem futurae eius potentiae populo Romano repraesentasset, impetraturus.
He too, in that Campus of which he later became lord, was affronted by a rejection for the Praetorship.  But if some god had shown the Roman people the shape and semblance of his future power, he would have gained all places for the office he sought.
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