quibus ut occurreretur, lege cautum est ne quis triumpharet nisi qui quinque milia hostium una acie cecidisset: non enim numero sed gloria triumphorum excelsius urbis nostrae futurum decus maiores existimabant.
To oppose them, it was enacted by law that no one should triumph who had not killed five thousand of the enemy in a single engagement. For our ancestors held that the dignity of our city would be heightened not by the number of triumphs but by their glory.
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