Nec vero dubito quin, si ille vir legationem renuntiare potuisset, reditus eius et vobis gratus fuerit et rei publicae salutaris futurus, non quo L. Philippo et L. Pisoni aut studium aut cura defuerit in tanto officio tantoque munere, sed cum Ser. Sulpicius aetate illis anteiret, sapientia omnibus, subito ereptus e causa totam legationem orbam et debilitatam reliquit.
Nor do I doubt that if that great man could have reported on the mission, his return would have been both welcome to you and beneficial to the Republic; I say this not because Lucius Philippus and Lucius Piso lacked either zeal or diligence in so important a duty and charge, but since Servius Sulpicius surpassed them in age and all of us in wisdom, his sudden loss left the whole embassy bereft and enfeebled.
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