Lucanum propriae causae accendebant, quod famam carminum eius premebat Nero prohibueratque ostentare, vanus adsimulatione: Lateranum consulem designatum nulla iniuria, sed amor rei publicae sociavit.
Lucan had private motives to inflame him, since Nero was stifling the reputation of his poems and had ordered him not to seek publicity'for he had the vanity to count himself his peer. Lateranus, a consul designate, was brought to the cause, not by an injury, but by affection for the commonwealth.
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