Labor parentibus erat ostentare parvulos impositosque cervicibus adulantia verba blandasque voces edocere: reddebant illi quae monebantur, ac plerique inritis precibus surdas principis aures adstrepebant, ignarique quid rogassent quid non impetrassent, donec plane scirent differebantur.
Every parents concern was to show his little ones mounted on his shoulders, to teach them flattering words and fawning phrases, while they repeated their lessons, their vain pleas mostly falling on the emperors deaf ears, to be brushed aside in their ignorance of what they asked and what was refused, until the day would come when they would understand all too well.
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