Quid enim, o di immortales, admirabilius omnibus gentibus, quid optatius populo Romano accidere potuit quam, cum bellum civile maximum esset, cuius belli exitum omnes timeremus, sapientia et misericordia id potius exstingui quam armis et ferro rem in discrimen adduci?
What event, by the immortal gods, could have created greater admiration among all nations and what could the Roman people more earnestly have desired to happen than the extinction of a civil war by wisdom and compassion, instead of provoking a crisis by weapons and the sword, just when that war was at its most threatening and we all dreaded its outcome?
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