Omnes id quidem facere debebamus, eaque erat non modo apud maiores nostros sed etiam nuper summa laus consularium vigilare [cogitare], adesse animo, semper aliquid pro re publica aut cogitare aut facere aut dicere.
All of us ought to have done that; and not only in the days of our ancestors but quite recently as well, the highest glory of consulars was to be watchful and alert, to be always thinking or doing or saying something in the interest of the Republic.
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