Idem, cum Ser. Sulpicius Galba et Aurelius <Cotta> consules in senatu contenderent uter adversus Viriathum in Hispaniam mitteretur, ac magna inter patres conscriptos dissensio esset, omnibus quonam eius sententia inclinaretur exspectantibus, neutrum inquit mihi mitti placet, quia alter nihil habet, alteri nihil est satis, aeque malam licentis imperii magistram iudicans inopiam atque avaritiam.
Of the same Scipio: Consuls Ser. Sulpicius Galba and L. Aurelius Cotta were disputing in the senate which of them should be sent to Spain against Viriathus, and there was great dissension among the Conscript Fathers. As all waited to see which way Scipios opinion tended, he said: I do not think either one should be sent, because one of them has nothing and the other never has enough. He judged that poverty and greed were equally bad instructors for unfettered authority.
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