Neque dubium habetur multa eorundem in populum Romanum merita sociasque victorias potuisse tradi: set Claudius, facilitate solita quod uni concesserat, nullis extrinsecus adiumentis velavit.
There can be no doubt that a large number of services rendered by the islanders to Rome, and of victories in which they had borne their part, could have been cited; but Claudius declined to disguise by external aids a favour which, with his wonted complaisance, he had accorded to an individual.
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