Age, si quando pietas nostra silentium rupit et verecundiam tuam vicit, quae qualiaque aut decernimus nos, aut tu non recusas!' ut adpareat non superbia et fastidio te amplissimos honores repudiare, qui minores non dedigneris Pulchrius hoc, Caesar, quam si recusares omnes; nam recusare omnes ambitionis, moderatio est eligere parcissimos
Ah, if ever our loyal devotion breaks its silence and overcomes your hesitation, what honours shall we decree and you be glad to accept! Then it will be made plain that it was not pride and contempt which made you refuse the highest honours while accepting lesser ones, for this, Caesar, was nobler on your part than to refuse all: to refuse all would be merely courting favour, while it is true modesty to choose the lowest.
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