Miseros ambitionis, qui ita consules semper, ut semper principes erant! Quamquam non ambitio quam livor et malignitas videri potest, omnes annos possidere, summumque illud purpurae decus non nisi praecerptum praefloratumque transmittere.
O wretched ambition in those who sought to match their lifelong power with a perpetual consulship! Or perhaps not ambition so much as spiteful jealousy, to appropriate every year and pass on the official purple only when its lustre was tarnished after use.
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