avitum est quod reposco; testes mihi in praesentiarum avi nostri super hoc negotio Apollinaris et Rusticus advocabuntur, quos laudabili familiaritate coniunxerat litterarum dignitatum, periculorum conscientiarum similitudo, cum in Constantino inconstantiam, in Iovino facilitatem, in Gerontio perfidiam, singula in singulis, omnia in Dardano crimina simul execrarentur.
The privilege I claim is an inherited one; on the present occasion I will call as witnesses in my suit our grandfathers Apollinaris and Rusticus, whom the similarity of their literary pursuits and their dignities, their dangers and their consciences had joined to one another in an attachment that did them honour; for they both abhorred in Constantine his fickleness, in Jovinus his pliability, in Gerontius his faithlessness, in each his particular vice, but in Dardanus all the vices together.
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