Non ergo temporarium et subitum est, quod uterque collegae consulatu tamquam iterum suo gaudet, nisi quod tamen qui rursus consules fiunt, bis quidem sed temporibus diversis obligantur, nos duos consulatus simul accepimus, simul gerimus alterque in altero consules et iterum et pariter sumus.
Thus there is nothing incidental or transitory in the pleasure which each of us feels in the consulship of his colleague; it might be a second one of his own, only with this difference: those who hold office twice are indeed honoured twice, but on different occasions, whereas we have received our two consulships together and hold them together, and through the person of the other each feels that we are consuls at the same moment and for a second time.
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