Minus triginta transfugae et desertores, quos centurionem aut tribunum sibi eligentis nemo ferret, imperium adsignabunt? Admittitis exemplum et quiescendo commune crimen facitis? Transcendet haec licentia in provincias, et ad nos scelerum exitus, bellorum ad vos pertinebunt.
Shall less than thirty renegades and deserters, men whom no one would allow to choose a centurion or tribune, bestow the empire? Will you allow this precedent, and by inaction make their crime yours? Such licence will spread to the provinces, and the consequence of their crimes will fall on us, the resulting wars on you.
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