hi sunt, qui sibi adversus vicinorum aciem tam duces fuere quam milites; de quorum tamen sorte certaminum si quid prosperum cessit, vos secunda solata sunt, si quid contrarium, illos adversa fregerunt.
these are the men who, in facing the enemy host at their gates, were their own leaders as well as soldiers, and yet when their arms had any success their triumph benefited you, whereas if they were worsted it was only they who were crushed by the blow.
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