et horum aliqua tamen cum reliquis forsitan communicanda collegis; illud autem deberi tibi quodam, ut iurisconsulti dicunt, praecipui titulo nec tuus poterit ire pudor infitias, quod post Gothicam depopulationem, post segetes incendio absumptas peculiari sumptu inopiae communi per desolatas Gallias gratuita frumenta misisti, cum tabescentibus fame populis nimium contulisses, si commercio fuisset species ista, non muneri.
It may indeed be true that your colleagues must share in the credit for some of these things; but there is one glory which, with all your modesty, you must acknowledge to be due to you by special title, as the lawyers say. When the crops had been consumed by fire you sent free supplies of corn through all the devastated Gallic lands at your private expense to relieve the public destitution, although you would have conferred an ample boon upon the starving population if that commodity had been offered for sale, not as a gift.
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