Cogi porro non poteras nisi periculo patriae et nutatione rei publicae; obstinatum enim tibi non suscipere imperium, nisi servandum fuisset.
Even then you could only be persuaded because you saw your country in peril and the whole realm tottering to a fall; for you were resolved only to take up the burden of supreme power when it was threatened with destruction.
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