Nam quanto videor plura apud vos habere ad commendationem suffragia, tanto sum ad dicendum nimia reverentia vestri cunctatior, et qui penes extrarios saepenumero promptissime disceptavi, idem nunc penes meos haesito ac (mirum dictum) ipsis illecebris deterreor et stimulis refrenor et incitamentis cohibeor.
For the more assurances of your approval I seem to have, the more my great respect for you makes me hesitant to speak; and though I have very often been very ready to lecture before strangers, yet now before my fellow citizens I waver, and (strange to say) I am deterred precisely by the inducements, restrained by the promptings, and checked by the incentives.
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