esto, multiplicatis tibi spumabunt musta vinetis, innumeros quoque cumulos frugibus rupta congestis horrea dabunt, densum pecus gravidis uberibus in mulctram per antra olida caularum pinguis tibi pastor includet: quo spectat tam faeculento patrimonium promovisse compendio et non solum inter ista sed, quod est turpius, propter ista latuisse? non nequiter te concilii tempore post sedentes censentesque iuvenes inglorium rusticum, senem stantem latitabundum pauperis honorati sententia premat, cum eos quos esset indignum si vestigia nostra sequerentur videris dolens antecessisse?.
Granted that your vats will foam with the produce of your extended vineyards, that your barns will show corn heaped in countless piles until they burst, that your well-fed shepherd will drive a crowded flock with full udders to the milking-pail through the odorous entrances of your sheep-folds: but of what use is it to have increased your inheritance by so dirty an economy and at the same time to have remained in obscurity not only amid such surroundings, but (what is more shameful) for the sake of them? Would it not be a wicked thing if on the day of assembly you in your old age were to stand behind your juniors while they are seated and taking part in the debate,'you an inglorious rustic shrinking from sight and bowing before the authoritative pronouncement of some poor man come to high place, having realised with remorse that men, in whose case it would have been a scandal if they had even followed in our steps, have passed you in the race?
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