Quid est enim in principatu tuo, quod cuiusquam praedicatio vel transilire vel praetervehi debeat? Quod momentum, quod immo temporis punctum, aut beneficio sterile aut vacuum laude? Non omnia eius modi, ut is optime te laudasse videatur, qui narraverit fidelissime? Quo fit ut prope in immensum diffundatur oratio mea, et necdum de biennio loquor.
Is there anything in your principate which a panegyrist must hurry over with a passing word? Any moment or instant of time which has yielded no benefit and commands no approbation? Does not everything combine to make the highest praise of you no more than a faithful record of the truth? And so my speech could be infinitely prolonged, although the period of which I speak is less than two years.
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