Q. Fabius Maximus tantummodo, et is ipse per imprudentiam, de tertio Punico bello indicendo quod secreto in curia erat actum P. Crasso rus petens domum revertenti in itinere narravit, memor eum triennio ante quaestorem factum, ignarus nondum a censoribus in ordinem senatorium allectum, quo uno modo etiam iis qui iam honores gesserant aditus in curiam dabatur.
Only Q. Fabius Maximus, and he through inadvertence, told P. Crassus on the road (Crassus was returning home as Fabius was on his way to the country) what had passed secretly in the senate about declaring the Third Punic War. He remembered that Crassus had been elected Quaestor three years earlier and did not know that the Censors had not yet enrolled him in the senatorial order, that being the only way by which even those who had already held office were given access to the senate house.
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