qua votorum verecundia deinceps censores in condendis lustris usi sunt: prudenter enim sensit tunc incrementum Romano imperio petendum fuisse cum intra septimum lapidem triumphi quaerebantur, maiorem autem totius terrarum orbis partem possidenti ut avidum esse quicquam ultra appetere ita abunde felix si nihil ex eo quod obtinebat amitteret.
From that time on Censors have used this modest form of prayer in winding up censuses. For he wisely realized that increase for Roman empire was to be asked for in the days when triumphs were sought on the near side of the seventh milestone, but for a people that possessed the greater part of the whole globe it would be greedy to ask for more and abundantly fortunate if they lost nothing of what was already theirs.
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