Brutus, or On Eminent Orators Passage 22

Nam mihi, Brute, in te intuenti crebro in merrtem venit vereri, ecquodnam curriculum aliquando sit habitura tua et natura admirabilis et exquisita doctrina et singularis industria. Cum enim in maximis causis versatus esses et cum tibi aetas nostra iam cederet fascisque summitteret, subito in civitate cum alia ceciderunt tum etiam ea ipsa, de qua disputare ordimur, eloquentia obmutuit.

"For, Brutus, as I look upon you, it frequently comes into my mind to fear what course your marvelous natural gifts, refined learning, and singular industry will ever have open to them. For after you had been engaged in the greatest cases, and when men of my generation were already yielding to you and lowering the fasces, suddenly, along with everything else that fell in the state, eloquence itself, the subject we are beginning to discuss, fell silent."

«Car, Brutus, lorsque je te regarde, il me vient souvent à l'esprit de craindre et de me demander quelle carrière pourront un jour avoir ta nature admirable, ton savoir raffiné et ton ardeur singulière. Après que tu avais plaidé les plus grandes causes et que ma génération te cédait déjà la place et abaissait devant toi les faisceaux, soudain, parmi tout ce qui s'écroula dans la cité, l'éloquence elle-même, dont nous entreprenons de parler, devint muette.»