Quapropter non es damnandus rustici rigoris crimine, C. Mari, quia gemina lauru coronatam senectutem tuam, Numidicis et Germanicis illustrem tropaeis, victor devictae gentis facundia politiorem fieri noluisti, credo ne alienigena ingenii exercitatione patrii ritus serus transfuga exsisteres.
Therefore, C. Marius, you are not to be held guilty of rustic rigour in that you did not wish your old age, crowned with double laurels, illustrious with the trophies of Numidia and Germany, to acquire polish from the eloquence of a conquered race, you, the conqueror. You feared, I think, that by alien exercise of intelligence you would emerge as a tardy deserter from national usage.
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