Marc. 8.1Omnia sunt excitanda tibi, C. Caesar, ūnī quae iacēre sentīs bellī ipsīus impetū, quod necesse fuit, perculsa atque prōstrāta: cōnstituenda iūdicia, revocanda fidēs, comprimendae libīdinēs, prōpāganda subolēs, omnia quae dīlāpsa iam difflūxērunt sevērīs lēgibus vincienda sunt.Everything must be raised up by you alone, Gaius Caesar, which you perceive to lie struck down and laid low by the very onset of war, as was inevitable: the courts must be re-established, credit must be recalled, licentiousness must be checked, the birth rate must be increased, all that has already fallen apart and flowed away must be bound together by strict laws. Marc. 8.24Nōn fuit recūsandum in tantō cīvīlī bellō, tantō animōrum ardōre et armōrum quīn quassāta rēs pūblica, quīcumque bellī ēventus fuisset, multa perderet et ōrnāmenta dignitātis et praesidia stabilitātis suae, multaque uterque dux faceret armātus quae īdem togātus fierī prohibuisset.It could not be avoided, in so great a civil war, in such a blaze of passions and of arms, that the shattered commonwealth, whatever the outcome of the war had been, should lose many ornaments of its dignity and many safeguards of its stability, and that each leader should do many things in arms which the same man, in the toga, would have forbidden to be done.
Marc. 8.24Quae quidem tibi nunc omnia bellī volnera sānanda sunt, quibus praeter tē medērī nēmō potest.All these wounds of war must now be healed by you, and no one but you can cure them. Marc. 8.25Itaque illam tuam praeclārissimam et sapientissimam vōcem invītus audīvī: "Satis diū vel nātūrae vīxī vel glōriae."And so it was with reluctance that I heard that most famous and most wise saying of yours: 'I have lived long enough either for nature or for glory.' Marc. 8.25Satis, sī ita vīs, fortasse nātūrae, addam etiam, sī placet, glōriae: at, quod maximum est, patriae certē parum.Long enough, if you will have it so, perhaps for nature, and I will add even, if you please, for glory: but, what is most important, certainly too little for your country. Marc. 8.25Quā rē omitte, quaesō, istam doctōrum hominum in contemnendā morte prūdentiam: nōlī nostrō perīculō esse sapiēns.Therefore set aside, I beg you, that wisdom of learned men in despising death: do not be wise at our peril. Marc. 8.25Saepe enim venit ad meās aurīs tē īdem istud nimis crēbrō dīcere, satis tē tibi vīxisse.For it often comes to my ears that you say that same thing too frequently, that you have lived long enough for yourself.
Marc. 8.25Crēdō, sed tum id audīrem, sī tibi sōlī vīverēs aut sī tibi etiam sōlī nātus essēs.I believe it, but I would accept it only if you lived for yourself alone, or if you had been born for yourself alone. Marc. 8.25Omnium salūtem cīvium cūnctamque rem pūblicam rēs tuae gestae complexae sunt;Your achievements have embraced the safety of all the citizens and the whole commonwealth; Marc. 8.25tantum abes ā perfectiōne maximōrum operum ut fundāmenta nōndum quae cōgitās iēcerīs.you are so far from the completion of your greatest works that you have not yet laid the foundations that you plan. Marc. 8.25Hīc tū modum vītae tuae nōn salūte reī pūblicae, sed aequitāte animī dēfīniēs?Will you here set the limit of your life not by the safety of the commonwealth but by your own contentment? Marc. 8.25Quid, sī istud nē glōriae quidem satis est?What if that is not enough even for glory? Marc. 8.25cuius tē esse avidissimum, quamvīs sīs sapiēns, nōn negābis.for which you will not deny that you are most greedy, wise though you are. Marc. 8.26Parumnē, inquiēs, magna relinquēmus?'Shall we then leave too little that is great?' you will say.
Marc. 8.26Immō vērō aliīs quamvīs multīs satis, tibi ūnī parum.No indeed: enough for others, however many, but too little for you alone. Marc. 8.26Quicquid est enim, quamvīs amplum sit, id est parum tum cum est aliquid amplius.For whatever it is, however ample, it is too little at the time when there is something ampler. Marc. 8.26Quod sī rērum tuārum immortālium, C. Caesar, hic exitus futūrus fuit ut dēvictīs adversāriīs rem pūblicam in eō statū relinquerēs in quō nunc est, vidē, quaesō, nē tua dīvīna virtūs admīrātiōnis plūs sit habitūra quam glōriae;But if the outcome of your immortal achievements, Gaius Caesar, was to be this, that after defeating your adversaries you should leave the commonwealth in the state in which it now is, take care, I beg you, that your divine virtue may not win more admiration than glory; Marc. 8.26sī quidem glōria est inlūstris et pervagāta magnōrum vel in suōs cīvīs vel in patriam vel in omne genus hominum fāma meritōrum.since glory is the illustrious and widespread fame of great services, whether to one's own citizens or to one's country or to the whole human race.