Certe, uti meminisse te arbitror, consulare imperium, quod libertatis principium fuerat, ob superbiam consulum vestri veteres abolere cupiverunt, qui ob eandem superbiam prius regium de civitate nomen abstulerant.
Certainly your old Romans once, as you remember, I expect, wanted to abolish the power of the consuls, which had earlier been the beginning of Roman liberty, because of the arrogance of the consuls'those same Romans who because of the same arrogance had formerly removed the power and the name of kings from the state.
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