Debes ergo, Caesar, et solvis, et cum ter consules facis non tibi magnus princeps sed non ingratus amicus videris; quin etiam perquam modica quaedam civium merita fortunae tuae viribus in maius extollis.
This then is a debt which you wish to repay, and in doing so by granting a third consulship you see yourself not as a great emperor so much as a not ungrateful friend. Moreover, however modest the services of your subjects, you ennoble them by virtue of your rank,
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