(iactanter hoc dixi, immo meliora); quos undique urbium ascitos imperator in unam civitatem, invitator in unam cenam forte contraxerat.
(this is a boastful way to put it; better pieces, I ought to have said); they happened to have been brought together by the Emperor, who from widely scattered cities had summoned them to one city; and now a common host had united us all at his board.
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