o terque quaterque beatum te, de cuius culmine datur amicis laetitia, lividis poena, posteris gloria, tum praeterea vegetis et alacribus exemplum, desidibus et pigris incitamentum; et tamen, si qui sunt qui te quocumque animo deinceps aemulabuntur, sibi forsitan, si te consequantur, debeant tibi debebunt procul dubio quod sequuntur.
O three and four times happy thou by whose elevation joy is brought to your friends, punishment to your detractors and distinction to your posterity; an example, moreover, to the energetic and zealous and a spur to the idle and lazy. And certainly if others in their turn, no matter in what spirit, become your rivals, such people, though they may claim credit to themselves if they catch up with you, will certainly owe it to you that they follow in your path.
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