Itaque, patres conscripti, si Ser. Sulpicio casus mortem attulisset, dolerem equidem tanto rei publicae vulnere, mortem vero eius non monumento, sed luctu publico esse ornandam putarem.
So, Members of the Senate, if Servius Sulpicius death had been caused by an accident, I would indeed be grieving at so heavy a loss for the Republic, but I would think that his death should be honored not by a monument, but rather by public mourning.
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