ingentes praeconiorum titulos moribus meis applicas; sed si pudoris nostri fecisses utcumque rationem, Symmachianum illud te cogitare par fuerat: ut vera laus ornat, ita falsa castigat.
You apply to my character great screeds of eulogy; but if you had had any thought for my modesty it would have been right for you to consider the dictum of Symmachus: True praise is an honour, false praise a rebuke.
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