Et illos quidem voluntas, ad altiora propensiores, subire impulit facinora memoranda, sors vero miseranda recens captarum urbium et inultae caesorum exercituum umbrae, et damnorum magnitudines castrorumque amissiones, ad haec quae proposuimus agenda hortantur, votis omnium sociis ut medeamur praeteritis, et roborata huius lateris securitate re publica, quae de nobis magnifice loquatur posteritas relinquamus.
Those emperors, indeed, their own desire, inclined as they were to lofty enterprises, drove to undertake noteworthy exploits, but we are urged on to our present purpose by the pitiful fate of recently captured cities, by the unavenged shades of armies destroyed, by the great disasters that have been suffered, and by the loss of many a camp. For everybodys desires are one with ours to make good the past and give strength to our country by making this side of her domain safe, and thus leave to future generations material for singing our praises.
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