Atque haec teste Scipione Africano loquor, qui tametsi artissima familiaritate Laelio iunctus erat, at tamen senatum supplex oravit ne provinciae sors fratri suo erepta ad eum transferretur, legatumque se L. Scipioni in Asiam iturum promisit, et maior natu minori et fortissimus imbelli et gloria excellens laudis inopi et, quod super omnia est, nondum Asiatico iam Africanus.
This I say with Scipio Africanus as my witness. Although linked to Laelius in closest intimacy, he begged the senate in supplication that the lot of a province withdrawn from his brother should not be transferred to him and promised to go to Asia as Legate to L. Scipio, elder brother to younger, hero to unwarlike, preeminent in glory to unpraised, and, above all, already Africanus to not yet Asiaticus.
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