si pares aeque inter se , quiescendum; sin , latius manabit , et quidem ad nos , deinde communiter
if appropriate.NOM.PL.M equally between himself.ACC.PL.M rest.GRND.NOM.SG.N if.not more.broadly spread.FUT.3SG and indeed to we.ACC.PL then jointly
if they are evenly matched, one has to rest; but if it spreads, and indeed spreads to us, then [we must act] jointly' (Cicero, ad Attticum 16.13b2)