Ullane satis digna praedicatio est idem tertio consulem fecisse quod primo, idem principem quod privatum, idem imperatorem quod sub imperatore? Nescio iam, nescio, pulchriusne sit illud quod praeeunte nullo, an hoc quod alio praeeunte iurasti.
A man three times consul acted as he did at his first election: a prince showed himself no different from a commoner, an emperor no different from one of his subjects: this surely is beyond all praise. For my part, I cannot judge which is the more splendid: the fact that you took the oath with no precedent before you, or that you took the words from anothers lips.
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