Ubinam se nunc, velim dicas, gentium abscondunt qui saepe sibi de molibus facultatum congregatarum deque congestis iam nigrescentis argenti struibus blandiebantur? ubi etiam illorum praerogativa, qui contra indolem iuniorum sola occasione praecedentis aetatis intumescebant? ubi sunt illi, quorum affinitas nullo indicio maiore cognoscitur quam simultate?
I wish you would tell me where in the world those people are now hiding who used so often to congratulate themselves on the masses of wealth they had assembled and on their accumulated piles of silver already tarnished with the blackness of age. Where, too, is the privileged position of those who, merely on the score of seniority, proudly sought to suppress the spirit of the younger generation? Where are the men whose relationship is recognised by their quarrels more than by any other evidence?
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