quam bonos Gracchi, si aut patris aut materni avi sectam vitae ingredi voluissent, habere milites potuerant! quo enim impetu, qua perseverantia animi Blossius et Pomponius et Laetorius tropaea ac triumphos eorum adiuvissent, furiosi conatus tam strenui comites, sinistris quidem auspiciis amicitiae condicionem secuti, sed quo miseriora hoc certiora fideliter cultae [nobilitatis] exempla!
What fine soldiers the Gracchi might have had if they had chosen to follow in the footsteps of their father or their maternal grandfather! With what energy, with what determination would Blossius and Pomponius and Laetorius, so vigorous companions of their mad enterprise, have assisted in their trophies and triumphs! Under sinister auspices they followed friendship as it came, examples of its faithful service, the more hapless the surer.
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