Illa vero etiam a claris viris interdum ex humillimis rebus petita est: nam quid sibi voluit C. Fabius, nobilissimus civis, qui cum in aede Salutis, quam C. Iunius Bubulcus dedicaverat, parietes pinxisset, nomen iis suum inscripsit? id enim demum ornamenti familiae consulatibus et sacerdotiis et triumphis celeberrimae deerat.
Glory has sometimes been sought even by men of note from the lowliest materials. For what was C. Fabius about, a citizen of the highest nobility, when he painted the walls in the temple of Welfare which C. Junius Bubulcus had dedicated and inscribed his name thereon? That was the only distinction lacking in a family abounding in Consulates and priesthoods and triumphs!
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