Uterque nuper consulatum alterum gesserat a patre tuo (id est quanto minus quam a te!) datum; utriusque adhuc oculis paulo ante dimissi fasces oberrabant, utriusque sollemnis ille lictorum et praenuntius clamor auribus insederat, cum rursus urulis rursusque purpura;
Both had recently held a second consulship, received from your father'which is not quite the same as having it granted by you; for both, the rods of office so lately laid aside were still before their eyes, and the traditional cries of the lictors heralding their approach still ringing in their ears when once again they donned the purple and seated themselves in the curule chair;
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