Non parvus consulatus rubor M. Perperna, utpote [quam] consul ante quam civis, sed in bello gerendo utilior aliquanto rei publicae Varrone imperator: regem enim Aristonicum cepit Crassianaeque stragis punitor exstitit, cum interim, cuius vita triumphavit, mors Papia lege damnata est: namque patrem illius, nihil ad se pertinentia civis Romani iura complexum Sabelli iudicio petitum redire in pristinas sedes coegerunt.
No small embarrassment to the Consulate is M. Perperna, who was Consul before he was a citizen, but in the conduct of war he was a general considerably more useful to the commonwealth than Varro. For he captured king Aristonicus and became the avenger of the Crassian carnage; but whereas his life triumphed, his death was found guilty under the Papian law. For his father had embraced the rights of a Roman citizen to which he had no title and was forced by the Sabelli as a result of a trial to return to his former place of residence.
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