Potest alio tempore, alio consule, quoi item exercitus in manu sit, falsum aliquid pro vero credi; ubi hoc exemplo per senatus decretum consul gladium eduxerit, quis illi finem statuet aut quis moderabitur? Maiores nostri, patres conscripti, neque consili neque audaciae umquam eguere, neque illis superbia obstabat quominus aliena instituta, si modo proba erant, imitarentur.
It is possible for something false to be believed true at another time, when someone else is consul who may likewise have an army under his control. When the consul, on the basis of this precedent, shall draw the sword in obedience to the senates decree, who will limit or who restrain him? Our ancestors, Members of the Senate, never lacked either wise counsel or courage, and yet pride did not keep them from adopting foreign institutions, provided they were honorable.
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