cut olim cum hostis in proximo, et in summum discrimen adducta res publica, expertum honoribus virum posceret, non consulatus hominibus isdem sed idem homines consulatibus reddebantur.
just as in times past, when the enemy at the gates and the republics gravest hour of peril demanded men tried and tested in office, it was a case of returning the same men to the consulate rather than the consulate to them.
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