Ergo, ubi delato consul sublimis honore ad patres consulta refert, deturque potestas orat delendae Carthaginis, altius orsus hoc grandaeva modo Fabius pater ora resolvit: haud equidem metuisse queam, satiatus et aevi et decoris, cui tam superest et gloria et aetas, ne credat nos invidiae certamine consul laudibus obtrectare suis.
Therefore, when the consul,c in the dignity of the great office conferred upon him, opened the debate in the Senate, and asked that the task of destroying Carthage might be his, old Fabius opened his aged lips and lifted up his voice, to speak thus: I have had so much of life and glory'more than enough of both'that I need not fear lest Scipio should suspect me of opposing his great enterprise from motives of jealousy.
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