Legatos decernis? Si ut deprecere, contemnet; si ut imperes, non audiet; denique quamvis severa legatis mandata dederimus, nomen ipsum legatorum hunc quem videmus populi Romani restinguet ardorem, municipiorum atque Italiae franget animos.
You propose envoys? If your purpose is to plead with him, he will despise you; if it is to give him orders, he will not listen. Finally, however stern a commission we give the envoys, the very term envoys will quench the ardor of the Roman people, of which we see the evidence around us, will break the spirit of the townships and Italy.
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