Ut vero iniit magistratum, non dicam quid prius, sed quid omnino egit aliud nisi ut me conservato vestram in  posterum dignitatem auctoritatemque sanciret? Di immortales, quantum mihi beneficium dedisse videmini, quod hoc anno P. Lentulus consul populi Romani fuit, quo quanto maius dedissetis, si superiore anno fuisset! Nec enim eguissem medicina consulari, nisi consulari vulnere concidissem.
But after entering upon his term of office, he made it his first, nay, his one and only object to preserve me, and so to render inviolate to future generations your prestige and your  authority. Immortal gods! how beneficently did you ordain that in that year Publius Lentulus should be consul of the Roman people! How yet more beneficently, had he been consul in the previous year! I should not then have needed the healing hand of a consul, for I should not have been stricken down by the wound a consul dealt.
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