Quamquam enim magnas res bellicas gesserat et triumpho dignas, non erat tamen ei tribuendum quod nec L. Aemilio nec Aemiliano Scipioni nec superiori Africano nec Mario nec Pompeio, qui maiora bella gesserunt; sed quod silentio bellum civile confecerat, cum primum licuit, honores in eum maximos contulistis.
He had indeed achieved important military successes worthy of a triumph, but that did not warrant our granting to him what was not granted to Lucius Aemilius or to Aemilianus Scipio or to the elder Africanus or to Marius or to Pompeius, men who conducted greater wars. But because he had brought a civil war to a conclusion without an uproar, you conferred the greatest honors upon him at the first opportunity.
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