Quam multa dixi de moderatione, et quanto plura adhuc restant! ut illud, quod secundum consulatum recepisti, quia princeps et pater deferebat; at postquam ad te imper summam, et cum omnium rerum tum etiam tui potestatem, di transtulerunt, tertium consulatum recusasti, cum agere tam bonum consulem posses.
I have said much about your moderation, but how much more is still unsaid! For example: you accepted a second consulship because an emperor, your father, bestowed it; but later on, when the gods placed supreme authority in your hands, that power to direct your own future as well as everything else, you refused the consulate a third time, although you could have assumed its duties so well.
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