Imper hoc verbum, non adulationis esse obsequio tuo crede, quod non alia in re magis aut senatus exigere a te aut tu praestare senatui debes.
That it speaks with the voice of authority and not of flattery is proved by your own attitude of deference; there is no demand which the Senate has a better claim to make of you or you to grant.
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