quid illa necessitate miserius, quae magistratum populi Romani abiecto honoris praetexto alienigenae religionis obscuratum insignibus per urbem iussit incedere? o nimis aut hi suae vitae aut illi alienae mortis cupidi, qui talia vel ipsi sustinuerunt vel alios perpeti coegerunt!
A pitiful necessity indeed that bade a magistrate of the Roman people throw aside his glory of office and walk through the city disguised by the emblems of a foreign cult. Too loving of their lives or of others deaths were they who either bore such things themselves or forced others to endure them.
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