P. autem Scipio Nasica, togatae potentiae clarissimum lumen, qui consul Iugurthae bellum indixit, qui Matrem Idaeam e Phrygiis sedibus ad nostras aras focosque migrantem sanctissimis manibus excepit, qui multas et pestiferas seditiones auctoritatis suae robore oppressit, quo principe senatus per aliquot annos gloriatus est, cum aedilitatem curulem adulescens peteret manumque cuiusdam rustico opere duratam more candidatorum tenacius apprehendisset, ioci gratia interrogavit eum num manibus solitus esset ambulare.
P. Scipio Nasica was a brilliant luminary of civilian power. As Consul he declared war on Jugurtha; he received in purest hands the Idaean Mother as she migrated from her Phrygian seat to our altars and hearths; by the strength of his authority he suppressed many noxious turmoils; for some years the senate gloried in him as their Leader. Standing for the Curule Aedileship as a young man, after the manner of candidates he gripped somebodys hand, which had been hardened by farm labour, rather tightly, and asked him as a joke whether he was by way of walking on his hands.
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