qui mos adeo pertinaciter retentus est ut Q. Fabius Maximus quinquies consul, vir et iam pridem summae auctoritatis et tunc ultimae senectutis, a filio consule invitatus ut inter se et lictorem procederet, ne hostium Samnitium turba, ad quorum colloquium descendebant, elideretur, facere id noluerit.
This custom was so obstinately maintained that when Q. Fabius Maximus, five times Consul, one who had for a long time been held in the highest respect and was at this time in extreme old age, was invited by his son, who was Consul, to walk between himself and the lictor, so that he should not be jostled by a crowd of enemy Samnites whom they were on their way to meet, he refused.
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