Haec interposui, patres conscripti, non tam ut pro me dixerim'male enim mecum ageretur si parum vobis essem sine defensione purgatus'quam ut quosdam nimis ieiuno animo et angusto monerem, id quod semper ipse fecissem, uti excellentium civium virtutem imitatione dignam, non invidia putarent.
I have put in these remarks, Members of the Senate, not so much in self-justification'I would be in a bad way if I were not sufficiently exonerated in your eyes without a defense'as to warn, as I personally have always done, certain mean and petty-minded persons that they should regard the merit of outstanding citizens as deserving imitation, not envy.
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