Cur enim te principe, qui generis tui claritatem virtute superasti, deterior esset condicio eorum qui posteros habere nobiles mererentur, quam eorum qui parentes habuissent?
for while you are emperor'you, whose virtues have gone far beyond the distinction of your origin'why should the status of those who deserve to have descendants among the nobility be inferior to that of those whose parents were already ennobled?
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