Tu enim iam tunc illum in tutelam recepisti, cum praedonis avidissimi faucibus eripuisti; neque enim sine auxilio tuo, cum altissima quaeque quaterentur, hic, qui omnibus excelsior erat, inconcussus stetit: praeteritus est a pessimo principe, qui praeteriri ab optimo non poterat.
for it was you who took him under your protection when you snatched him from the jaws of that monster of rapacity; for at the time when all the peaks were tottering to their fall, no one could have stood high above them all and remained untouched except by your intervention. So he escaped the notice of the worst of emperors, though he could not remain unnoticed by the best.
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