Ita vero, quae civitas quinquies atque etiam sexies consules vidit, non illos qui exspirante iam libertate per vim ac tumultum creabantur, sed quibus sepositis et absentibus in rura sua consulatus ferebantur, in hac civitate tertium consulatum princeps generis humani ut praegravem recusasti?
Why, the country has seen men five or six times consul, and not only those named amid the violence and confusion of the times when liberty breathed her last but those to whom the office was brought at their country homes far away from Rome: could it look on while a prince and leader of mankind refused a third consulship as likely to be unpopular with his people?
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