gens ferri patiens ac laeta domare labores paulatim antiquo patrum dissuescit honori; atque ille, haud umquam parcus pro laude cruoris et semper famae sitiens, obscura sedendo tempora agit, mutum volvens inglorius aevum, sanguine de nostro populus, blandoque veneno desidiae virtus paulatim evicta senescit.
A people, once steadfast in battle and triumphant over hardships, are forgetting by degrees the ancient glory of their sires. Then they never spared their blood in honours cause, and ever thirsted for fame; but now they pass their time in obscurity and inaction, and spend their lives amid inglorious silence, though my blood is in their veins; and their manliness is slowly sapped and weakened by the seductive poison of indolence.
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