Quis enim vel uno die reverentior senatus candidatus, quam tu cum omni vita turn illo ipso tempore quo iudicas de candidatis? An aliud a te quam senatus reverentia obtinuit, ut iuvenibus clarissimae gentis debitum generi honorem, sed ante quam deberetur offerres? Tandem ergo nobilitas non obscuratur sed inlustratur a principe, tandem illos ingentium virorum nepotes, illos posteros libertatis nec terret Caesar nec pavet; quin immo festinatis honoribus amplificat atque auget, et maioribus suis reddit.
Where is the candidate who can show greater respect for the Senate for a single day than you have done throughout your life, and particularly on the day when the candidates were subject to your decision? What else was it but respect for the Senate which made you offer young men of noble birth the position which was their family right, but earlier than it was due? So at long last the light of the nobility is not dimmed by Caesar but made to shine more brightly; at last the grandsons of great men, the descendants of liberty, need not tremble in fear before the Emperor; instead, he exalts and honours them by early distinctions, and restores them to their ancestral glory.
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