voluerunt illi statuas in comitio, in rostris, in curia, in ipsa denique Iovis Optimi Maximi cella ponere, voluerunt imaginem eius triumphali ornatu indutam Capitolinis pulvinaribus applicare, voluerunt ei continuum per omnes vitae annos consulatum perpetuamque dictaturam tribuere: quorum <nihil> sibi neque plebiscito dari neque senatus consulto decerni patiendo paene tantum se in recusandis honoribus gessit quantum egerat in emerendis.
They wished to set up statues to him in the place of assembly, the rostra, the senate house, finally in the very sanctuary of Jupiter Best and Greatest; they wished to place his effigy dressed in triumphal attire close to the Capitoline couches; they wished to give him a Consulship to continue through all the years of his life and a Dictatorship in perpetuity. None of which would he suffer to be conferred upon him either by popular resolution or by decree of the senate, thereby showing himself almost as great a man in refusing honours as in deserving them.
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