Haec si cogitas, es M. Lepidus, pontifex maximus, M. Lepidi, pontificis maximi, pronepos; sin hominibus tantum licere iudicas quantum possunt, vide ne alienis exemplis eisque recentibus uti quam et antiquis et domesticis malle videare.
If you think along these lines, you are Marcus Lepidus, pontifex maximus, great-grandson of Marcus Lepidus, pontifex maximus. But if you judge that people are permitted to do anything they have the power to do, consider lest you seem to be preferring to follow recent precedents drawn from outside your family rather than ancient and familial ones.
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