Is tum, silentio facto, unum illum intuentibus tuentibus ceteris: Si rex, inquit, sermoni tuo adfuisset, nullius profecto vox responsuri tibi desideraretur; ipse enim peteret, ne in peregrinos ritus externosque degenerare se cogeres neu rebus felicissime gestis invidiam tali adulatione contraheres.
He then, when silence ensued and the rest were looking at him alone, said: If the king had been present at your talk, surely the words of no one would be needed to reply to you; for he himself would beg that you should not force him to descend to foreign and alien rites, nor would you expose his highly successful exploits to  odium by such flattery.
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