Audieram ex sapientissimo homine atque optimo civi et viro, Q. Catulo, non saepe unum consulem improbum, duo vero numquam excepto illo Cinnano tempore fuisse: qua re meam causam semper fore firmissimam dicere solebat, dum vel unus in re publica consul esset.
Quintus Catulus, who was not only a man of great wisdom, but an excellent patriot and gentleman, once remarked to me that rarely had there been one wicked consul, but never two, save in the dark days of Cinnaa; and he often asserted that, for that reason, my position would be unassailable, so long as the state had even a single consul.
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