Ideoque intempestivo conatu desistere suadebant, ita demum haec et similia contemni oportere firmantes, cum irruentibus armis externis, lex una sit et perpetua, salutem omni ratione defendere, nihil remittentem vigoris.
And so they tried to dissuade Julian from the untimely enterprise, declaring that these and similar signs ought to be disregarded only in the case of attack by an enemy, when the one fixed rule is, to defend the safety of the State by every possible means and with unremitting effort.
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