Non vereor, patres conscripti, ne longior videar, cum sit maxime optandum, ut ea pro quibus aguntur principi gratiae multa sint; quae quidem reverentius fuerit integra inlibataque cogitationibus vestris reservari quam carptim breviterque perstringi, quia fere sequitur ut illa quidem de quibus taceas, tanta quanta sunt esse videantur'nisi vero leviter attingi placet locupletatas tribus datumque congiarium populo et datum totum, cum donativi partem milites accepissent.
I am not afraid of seeming long-winded, Conscript Fathers, since nothing is more desirable than that we should have much to offer thanks for to our prince. And rather than run quickly through a selection of his merits, we should show more respect if we left everything unspoken and implicit in our hearts: for what is left untouched is more likely to be judged at its true worth. Nevertheless, I should like to say a word about his gifts to enrich the urban population, the largess distributed to civilians in its entirety, whereas the military received only half of their bonus.
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