Tu quidem, Caesar, illam exceptionem removisti, si modo filius in potestate fuisset patris, intuitus, opinor, vim legemque naturae, quae semper in dicione parentum esse liberos iussit, nec uti inter pecudes sic inter homines potestatem et imperium valentioribus dedit.
You also removed the clause provided that he was still under his fathers authority, in the belief, I imagine, that there is a natural law compelling children always to be obedient to their fathers, one which does not reduce the human race to the level of the animal world, where power and authority go to the stronger.
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