quocirca si urbium status non tam murorum ambitu quam civium claritate taxandus est, non modo primum qui essetis, sed ubi essetis agnovi.
So if the standing of a city is to be judged not so much by the circumference of its walls as by the eminence of its citizens, I learned at the outset not only what you were like but where you stood
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