Si quando, nunc maxume Arvernis meis desideraris, quibus dilectio tui immane dominatur, et quidem multiplicibus ex causis: primum quod summas in adfectu partes iure sibi usurpat terra quae genuit, dein quod saeculo tuo solus ferme mortalium es qui patriae non minus desiderii nasciturus quam gaudii natus feceris; astipulantur assertis materni quondam puerperii tempora, quae proficiente conceptu concordantibus civium votis numerabantur.
Now, if ever, you are wanted by my Arvernians, who have an overmastering love for you, and this for manifold reasons: first, because the land which has begotten one rightly claims the chief place in ones affections; secondly, because in your generation you are almost the only man who has given his native town as much longing in the prospect of his birth as delight in its occurrence. This statement is borne out by what happened when, as your natal day approached, the passage of time was anxiously counted amid the unanimous prayers of the citizens.
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