Illi etiam praedivites qui ab aratro arcessebantur ut consules fierent, voluptatis causa sterile atque aestuosissimum Pupiniae solum versabant, deliciarumque gratia vastissimas glebas plurimo cum sudore dissipabant? immo vero, quos pericula rei publicae imperatores adserebant, angustiae rei familiaris'quid cesso proprium nomen veritati reddere?'bubulcos fieri cogebant.
Those plutocrats too who were summoned from the plough to become Consuls, did they use to turn over the barren, scorched soil of Pupinia for pleasure, splitting huge clods with plenty of sweat because it tickled their fancy? No, it was their straitened means that forced these men, whom the perils of the commonwealth called to be generals, to become (why shrink from giving truth its proper name?) ploughmen.
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