Nullius ab eo magistratus ius, nullius auctoritas imminuta est, aucta etiam: siquidem pleraque ad praetores remittebat, atque ita ut collegas vocaret, non quia populare gratumque audientibus, sed quia ita sentiebat.
No magistrate had his rights or authority diminished; indeed, he took pains to increase these, by delegating the majority of the cases to the praetors and addressing them as his colleagues, not with any idea of courting popularity among his audience, but because these were his genuine sentiments
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