Hoc ergo honore, quem et incipientes principes et desinentes adeo concupiscunt ut auferant, tu otioso ac vacante privatis cessisti.
This then was a distinction so coveted by emperors whether beginning or ending their reigns that they could seize it from its bearers; yet you left it for your subjects, even when it was vacant and unoccupied.
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