Marc. 4.1Equidem cum C. Mārcellī, virī optimī et commemorābilī pietāte praeditī lacrimās modo vōbīscum vidērem, omnium Mārcellōrum meum pectus memoriā offūdit, quibus tū etiam mortuīs M. Mārcellō cōnservātō dignitātem suam reddidistī nōbilissimamque familiam iam ad paucōs redāctam paene ab interitū vindicāstī.Indeed, when I saw just now with you the tears of Gaius Marcellus, an excellent man endowed with memorable family devotion, the memory of all the Marcelli flooded my heart; to them, though they are dead, you have restored their dignity by preserving Marcus Marcellus, and you have rescued a most noble family, already reduced to a few, almost from extinction. Marc. 4.11Hunc tū diem tuīs maximīs et innumerābilibus grātulātiōnibus iūre antepōnis.This day you rightly place before your greatest and countless occasions of thanksgiving. Marc. 4.11Haec enim rēs ūnīus est propria C. Caesaris;For this deed belongs to Gaius Caesar alone; Marc. 4.11cēterae duce tē gestae magnae illae quidem, sed tamen multō magnōque comitātū.the others carried out under your leadership were great, indeed, but done with a large and numerous company. Marc. 4.11Huius autem reī tū īdem dux es et comes: quae quidem tanta est ut tropaeīs et monumentīs tuīs adlātūra fīnem sit aetās—nihil est enim opere et manū factum quod nōn cōnficiat et cōnsūmat vetustās— at haec tua iūstitia et lēnitās flōrēscet cōtīdiē magis.But of this deed you are at once both leader and companion: and it is indeed so great that, while time will bring an end to your trophies and monuments — for there is nothing made by labour and hand which age does not wear out and consume — yet this justice and leniency of yours will flourish more every day.
Marc. 4.12Ita quantum operibus tuīs diūturnitās dētrahet, tantum adferet laudibus.Thus whatever length of time takes away from your works, it will add to your praises. Marc. 4.12Et cēterōs quidem omnīs victōrēs bellōrum cīvīlium iam anteā aequitāte et misericordiā vīcerās: hodiernō vērō diē tē ipse vīcistī.And all the other victors in civil wars you had already surpassed before in fairness and mercy: but today you have conquered yourself. Marc. 4.12Vereor ut hoc quod dīcam perinde intellegī possit audītū atque ipse cōgitāns sentiō: ipsam victōriam vīcisse vidēris, cum ea quae erant adēmpta victīs remīsistī.I fear that what I am about to say may not be understood by hearing as well as I myself feel it in my thoughts: you seem to have conquered victory itself, when you gave back to the conquered what had been taken from them. Marc. 4.12Nam cum ipsīus victōriae iūre omnēs victī occidissēmus, clēmentiae tuae iūdiciō cōnservātī sumus.For although by the right of victory itself we, the conquered, would all have perished, we have been saved by the judgement of your clemency. Marc. 4.12Rēctē igitur ūnus invictus es ā quō etiam ipsīus victōriae condiciō vīsque dēvicta est.Rightly, then, are you alone unconquered, by whom even the terms and power of victory itself have been conquered.