Et quoniam alloqui pariter omnes nec longitudo spatiorum extenta, nec in unum coactae multitudinis permitteret crebritas, (et alioqui vitabat gravioris invidiae pondus, ne videretur id affectasse quod soli sibi deberi Augustus existimabat) incautior sui hostium tela praetervolans, his et similibus notos pariter et ignotos ad faciendum fortiter accendebat.
And since to address them all at once was impossible, both on account of the wide extent of the field and the great numbers of the multitude that had been brought together (and besides he avoided the heavy burden of jealousy, for fear of seeming to have affected that which the emperor supposed to be due to himself alone) without thought of his own safety he flew past the enemys weapons and by these and similar speeches animated the soldiers, strangers as well as acquaintances, to deeds of valour.
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