superum cum munere detur huic sociare viro dextras et foedere iungi, fastus exsanguis populi vanumque tumorem nimirum Capua et dominatum perferat urbis, ceu famulis fasces aequataque iura negantis? prorsus enim tanto potiorem nomine habendum Varronem, ut fugiat consul fulgentior ostro.
When the goodness of Providence allows us to join hands with this hero and to ally ourselves with him, shall Capua, forsooth, put up with the pride and baseless insolence of an effete people, and be ruled by a state which refuses us, as if we were slaves, the rods of the consulship and equal rights? Varro, forsooth, they think more worthy of that high title, that his flight may be made more conspicuous by the consuls purple.
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