adhaerebam sellae curuli, etsi non latens per ordinem, certe non sedens per aetatem, mixtusque turmae censualium paenulatorum consuli proximis proximus eram.
I was standing close to the curule chair (for though my age forbade me to be seated, my rank entitled me to some prominence); and so mingling with the crowd of cloaked census-officials I was next to those who were next to the consul.
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