Si provincia urbe et salute imperii potior sit, omnes illuc sequerentur; sin victoriae columen in Italia verteretur, non abrumpendos ut corpori validissimos artus.
If the province was of more account than Rome and the safety of the empire, then all ought to follow thither; but if the main support of victory depended on Italy, the strongest limbs must not be torn, as it were, from the body of the army.
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