An siposses in fine votorum adiecisses ut ita precibus tuis di adnuerent, si iudicium nostrum mereri perseverasses? Adeo nihil tibi amore civium antiquius, ut ante a nobis deinde a dis, atque ita ab illis amari velis, si a nobis ameris.
Or should you (if it were possible) have ended by asking the gods to grant your prayers only so long as you continued to merit our esteem? Nothing stands higher with you than your subjects affection: so much so, that you would put our love before that of the gods, and desire theirs only if you have ours.
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