Res ipsa hortari videtur, quoniam de moribus civitatis tempus admonuit, supra repetere ac paucis instituta maiorum domi militiaeque, quo modo rem publicam habuerint quantamque reliquerint, ut paulatim inmutata ex pulcherrima <atque optuma> pessuma ac flagitiosissuma facta sit, disserere.
Since the occasion has raised the topic of public morals, the subject matter itself seems to encourage me to go back in time and talk briefly about the established practices of our forefathers in peace and in war, how they administered the state, how great it was when they passed it on, and how by gradual changes, instead of the noblest and the best, it has become the worst and the most infamous.
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