gratum ordinem, qui utilissimum rei publicae senatorem tantum non semper secum habitare voluit, omnibus numeris virtutis divitem magisque suo merito quam Fortunae beneficio magnum, cuius prius consilio quam Scipionis imperio deleta Carthago est! Rarum specimen honoris <in> Scipione quoque Nasica oboritur: eius namque manibus et penatibus nondum quaestori<i> senatus Pythii Apollinis monitu Pessinunte accersitam deam excipi voluit, quia eodem oraculo praeceptum erat ut haec ministeria Matri deum a sanctissimo viro praestarentur.
Grateful indeed was the senatorial order, which desired that a senator so useful to the commonwealth all but dwell always with itself, one rich in every kind of virtue and great more by his merit than by benefit of Fortune, by whose counsel Carthage was earlier destroyed than by Scipios generalship. A rare example of an honour comes before us also in the case of Scipio Nasica. For when he had not yet been Quaestor the senate decided that the goddess summoned from Pessinus at the admonition of Pythian Apollo should be received by his hands and his household gods, because the same oracle had prescribed that these services should be rendered to the Mother of the Gods by the most blameless of men.
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