An dubium est ut dare posset imperium imperator, qui reverentiam amiserat, auctoritate eius effectum cui dabatur? Simul filius simul Caesar, mox imperator et consors tribuniciae potestatis, et omnia pariter et statim factus es, quae proxime parens verus tantum in alterum filium contulit.
Can it be doubted that if an emperor who had forfeited mens regard was able to bestow the imperial power, it could only be because of the personality of the recipient? At one moment then, you became son and Caesar; soon you were emperor with a share in the tribunes powers, to hold immediately and simultaneously all the titles which in recent times were conferred by an emperor on one only of the sons he had fathered.
final_alignments\Pliny_Younger_Panegyricus.json