Quod sperare nos quidem debemus, patres conscripti, aut inibi esse aut iam esse confectum: <s>ed spei fructum rei convenit et evento reservari, ne aut deorum immortalium beneficium festinatione praeripuisse aut vim Fortunae stultitia contempsisse videamur.
We must hope, Members of the Senate, that it is on the point of achievement or already achieved. But it is fitting to reserve for the actual event the enjoyment of that for which we hope, so that we may not appear to have grasped too hastily at the gift of the immortal gods or, out of foolishness, to have despised the power of Fortune.
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