Age, quanto spiritu putamus usum L. Quinctium Cincinnatum dictatorem eo tempore quo devictis Aequiculis et sub iugum missis L. Minucium consulatum deponere coegit, quod castra eius iidem hostes obsederant? indignum enim maximo imperio credidit quem non sua virtus sed fossa vallumque tutum praestiterat, cuique verecundiae non fuerat arma Romana metu trepida clausis portis contineri.
And now, how high a spirit, think we, had Dictator L. Quinctius Cincinnatus when, after defeating the Aequiculi and sending them under the yoke, he obliged L. Minucius to lay down his Consulship because the same enemies had besieged his camp? For he held a man unworthy of the highest command whom moat and rampart had protected, not his own valour, and who had felt no shame that Roman arms be kept in terror behind closed gates.
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