debent igitur vel aequaevi vel posteri nostri universatim ferventibus votis alterum te ut Demosthenen, alterum ut Tullium nunc statuis, si liceat, consecrare, nunc imaginibus, qui te docente formati institutique iam sinu in medio sic gentis invictae, quod tamen alienae, natalium vetustorum signa retinebunt:
Therefore contemporaries and posterity alike should universally, amid a chorus of fervent vows, consecrate you as a second Demosthenes or a second Cicero, now with statues (if so allowed), now with portraits; for they have been so moulded and trained by your teaching that, though now in the very midst of an unconquerable and alien race, they will preserve the signs of their ancient birthright;
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