Sed postquam luxu atque desidia civitas corrupta est, rursus res publica magnitudine sua imperatorum atque magistratuum vitia sustentabat ac, sicuti effeta <vi> parentum, multis tempestatibus haud sane quisquam Romae virtute magnus fuit.
But after the body of citizens had been ruined by extravagance and idleness, the nation in turn offset by its own greatness the shortcomings of its generals and magistrates, and, just as if the vigor of their ancestors were worn out with childbearing, in many periods no one at all in Rome was outstanding for his merit.
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