Ac maioribus quidem vestris, Quirites, cum eo hoste res erat qui haberet rem publicam, curiam, aerarium, consensum et concordiam civium, rationem aliquam, si ita res tulisset, pacis et foederis:
Your ancestors, Men of Rome, had to deal with the kind of enemy who possessed a state, a senate, a public treasury, a consensus of like-minded citizens, and a consideration for a treaty of peace, if events had developed that way:
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