Marc. 9.1Haec igitur tibi reliqua pars est;This, then, is the part that remains for you; Marc. 9.1hic restat āctus, in hōc ēlabōrandum est ut rem pūblicam cōnstituās, eāque tū in prīmīs summā tranquillitāte et ōtiō perfruāre: tum tē, sī volēs, cum et patriae quod dēbēs solveris et nātūram ipsam explēveris satietāte vīvendī, satis diū vīxisse dīcitō.this act is left, on this you must labour: to set the commonwealth in order, and to enjoy it yourself, above all, in the greatest tranquillity and peace: then, if you wish, when you have both paid your country what you owe and satisfied nature herself with fullness of living, say that you have lived long enough. Marc. 9.1Quid enim est omnīnō hoc ipsum diū in quō est aliquid extrēmum?For what at all is this very 'long', in which there is some end? Marc. 9.1Quod cum venit, omnis voluptās praeterita prō nihilō est, quia posteā nūlla est futūra.When that end comes, all past pleasure counts for nothing, because none will come afterwards. Marc. 9.1Quamquam iste tuus animus numquam hīs angustiīs quās nātūra nōbīs ad vīvendum dedit contentus fuit, semper immortālitātis amōre flagrāvit.And yet that spirit of yours was never content with these narrow limits that nature has given us for living; it has always burned with love of immortality.
Marc. 9.28Nec vērō haec tua vīta dūcenda est quae corpore et spīritū continētur: illa, inquam, illa vīta est tua quae vigēbit memoriā saeculōrum omnium, quam posteritās alet, quam ipsa aeternitās semper tuēbitur.Nor indeed must this be thought your life which is bounded by body and breath: that, I say, that is your life which will thrive in the memory of all ages, which posterity will nourish, which eternity itself will always guard. Marc. 9.28Huic tū īnserviās, huic tē ostentēs oportet, quae quidem quae mīrētur iam prīdem multa habet;To this you must devote yourself, to this you must display yourself; it indeed has long had much to marvel at; Marc. 9.28nunc etiam quae laudet exspectat.now it awaits also something to praise. Marc. 9.28Obstupēscent posterī certē imperia, prōvinciās, Rhēnum, Oceanum, Nīlum, pugnās innumerābilīs, incrēdibilīs victōriās, monumenta, mūnera, triumphōs audientēs et legentēs tuōs.Posterity will surely be astounded as it hears and reads of your commands, provinces, the Rhine, the Ocean, the Nile, countless battles, incredible victories, monuments, shows and triumphs. Marc. 9.29Sed nisi haec urbs stabilīta tuīs cōnsiliīs et īnstitūtīs erit, vagābitur modo tuum nōmen longē atque lātē, sēdem stabilem et domicilium certum nōn habēbit.But unless this city is established by your counsels and institutions, your name will merely wander far and wide; it will have no stable seat and no fixed home.
Marc. 9.29Erit inter eōs etiam quī nāscentur, sīcut inter nōs fuit, magna dissēnsiō, cum aliī laudibus ad caelum rēs tuās gestās efferent, aliī fortasse aliquid requīrent, idque vel maximum, nisi bellī cīvīlis incendium salūte patriae restīnxeris, ut illud fātī fuisse videātur, hoc cōnsilī.Among those too who will be born there will be, as there has been among us, great disagreement, since some will extol your achievements to the sky with praise, while others perhaps will find something wanting, and that the greatest thing of all, unless you quench the fire of civil war by your country's safety, so that the one may seem to have been the work of fate, the other of wisdom. Marc. 9.29Servī igitur eīs iūdicibus quī multīs post saeculīs dē tē iūdicābunt et quidem haud sciō an incorruptius quam nōs;Serve, then, those judges who many ages hence will judge you, and indeed, I rather think, more impartially than we; Marc. 9.29nam et sine amōre et sine cupiditāte et rūrsus sine odiō et sine invidiā iūdicābunt.for they will judge both without love and without partiality, and again without hatred and without envy. Marc. 9.30Id autem etiam sī tum ad tē, ut quīdam falsō putant, nōn pertinēbit, nunc certē pertinet esse tē tālem ut tuās laudēs obscūrātūra nūlla umquam sit oblīviō.And even if that will not concern you then, as some falsely think, it certainly concerns you now to be such a man that no oblivion will ever obscure your praises.