Vidit te populus Romanus in illa vetere potestatis suae sede; perpessus es longum illud carmen comitiorum nec iam inridendam moram consulque sic factus es ut unus ex nobis, quos facis consules.
The people of Rome saw you in the ancient seat of their former power, while you bore patiently with the long ceremonial of the electoral assembly, the slow ritual which this time was not a farce; and so you were made consul as if one of us, us who are made consuls by your word.
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