qui praetor, a patre suo collegii Saliorum magistro iussus, sex lictoribus praecedentibus arma ancilia tulit, quamvis vacationem huius officii honoris beneficio haberet: omnia namque post religionem ponenda semper nostra civitas duxit, etiam in quibus summae maiestatis conspici decus voluit.
As Praetor, at the direction of his father who was head of the College of Salii, he bore the sacred shields, preceded by his six lictors, even though by virtue of his magistracy he was entitled to exemption from this office. For our community has ever held that all things must yield to religion, even in the case of personages in whom it wished the splendour of most exalted dignity to be displayed.
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