quo fit, ut deinceps pro republica optimus quisque possit ac debeat, si quid cuipiam virium est, quia securus, hinc avidus impendere, quandoquidem mortuo quoque imperatore laborantum devotioni quicquid spoponderit princeps, semper redhibet principatus.
The upshot of this is that in each succeeding era the best citizens can and ought to expend their utmost powers with an eagerness based on perfect confidence, seeing that even after the death of an Emperor any reward that that prince has promised to his devoted servants is always duly paid by the principate.
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