tu item, [Postumi] Torquate, Latino bello consul filium, quod provocatus a Gemino Maecio, duce Tusculanorum, ad dimicandum te ignaro descenderat, gloriosam victoriam et speciosa spolia referentem abripi a lictore et in modum hostiae mactari iussisti, satius esse iudicans patrem forti filio quam patriam militari disciplina carere.
You, likewise, Torquatus, Consul in the Latin war, ordered your son to be seized by a lictor and slaughtered like a sacrificial victim as he was bringing back a glorious victory and splendid spoils, because being challenged by Geminus Maecius, leader of the Tusculans, he had gone out to combat without your knowledge. You judged it better that a father should lose a brave son than that the fatherland should lose military discipline.
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