ceterum ne tam praeclara lex cupiditate laureae oblitteraretur, legis alterius adiutorio fulta est, quam L. Marius et M. Cato tribuni plebis tulerunt: poenam enim imperatoribus minatur qui aut hostium occisorum in proelio aut amissorum civium falsum numerum litteris senatui ausi essent referre, iubetque eos, cum primum urbem intrassent, apud quaestores urbanos iurare de utroque numero vere ab iis senatui esse scriptum.
And lest so excellent a law be effaced by greed for laurels, it was propped up by another law, put through by Tribunes of the Plebs L. Marius and M. Cato. It threatens with a penalty generals who venture in dispatches to report to the senate a false number either of enemies killed in battle or of citizens lost, and requires that as soon as they enter the city they take an oath before the City Quaestors that both numbers have been stated by them to the senate truthfully.
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