et poterat inhiberi respectu consulatus, quem is gesserat, atque auctoritate fratris eius T. Flaminini; sed et censor et Cato, duplex severitatis exemplum, eo magis illum notandum statuit quod amplissimi honoris maiestatem tam taetro facinore inquinaverat, nec pensi duxerat iisdem imaginibus ascribi meretricis oculos humano sanguine delectatos et regis Philippi supplices manus.
Cato might have been deterred by respect for the Consulship which Flamininus had held and the prestige of his brother, T. Flamininus. But being Censor and Cato, a twofold pattern of severity, he determined that the offender deserved the stigma all the more because he had befouled the majesty of the highest office by so loathsome an act and had not let it concern him that the eyes of a harlot gratified with human blood and the hands of king Philip lifted in supplication be attached to the same family masks.
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