Sed in tanta mole belli plerumque cunctatio; et Vespasianus modo in spem erectus, aliquando adversa reputabat: quis ille dies foret quo sexaginta aetatis annos et duos filios iuvenes bello permitteret? Esse privatis cogitationibus progressum et, prout velint, plus minusve sumi ex fortuna: imperium cupientibus nihil medium inter summa aut praecipitia.
But a war of such scope can never be undertaken without hesitation; and Vespasian, at one moment inspired with hope, would at times ponder over the obstacles'what could that day be on which he should entrust his sixty years and his two young sons to the fortune of war? He reflected that private plans allow one to advance or retreat and permit the individual to take that measure of Fortunes gifts that he will; but when a man aims at the imperial power, there is no mean between the heights and the abyss.
final_alignments\Tacitus_Histories_Book2.json