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patres
conscripti, cur eum non quam primum amplissimos honores
capere cupiamus? legibus enim annalibus cum grandiorem
aetatem ad consulatum constituebant, adulescentiae temeritatem
verebantur: C. Caesar ineunte aetate docuit ab excellenti
eximiaque virtute progressum aetatis exspectari non
oportere. itaque maiores nostri veteres illi admodum
antiqui leges annalis non habebant, quas multis post annis
attulit ambitio, ut gradus essent1 petitionis inter aequalis.
ita saepe magna indoles virtutis, prius quam rei publicae
prodesse potuisset, exstincta est2.
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