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huic successit aetati C. Galba , Servi illius eloquentissimi viri filius, P. Crassi eloquentis et iuris periti gener. Laudabant hunc patres nostri, favebant etiam propter patris memoriam, sed cecidit in cursu. Nam rogatione Mamilia , Iugurthinae coniurationis invidia, cum pro sese ipse dixisset, oppressus est. Exstat eius peroratio, qui epilogus dicitur; qui tanto in honore pueris nobis erat ut eum etiam edisceremus. Hic, qui in conlegio sacerdotum esset, primus post Romam conditam iudicio publico est condemnatus.

"Next in age came Gaius Galba, son of that most eloquent Servius and son-in-law of the eloquent and legally learned Publius Crassus. Our fathers praised him and also favored him because of his father's memory, but he fell in mid-career. Under the Mamilian bill, amid the odium caused by the Jugurthine conspiracy, he spoke in his own defense and was crushed. His concluding speech, which is called an epilogue, survives. It was held in such esteem when we were boys that we even learned it by heart. Though a member of the college of priests, he was the first priest since the foundation of Rome to be convicted in a public trial."

«À cette génération succéda C. Galba, fils de Servius, cet homme si éloquent, et gendre de P. Crassus, éloquent et savant en droit. Nos pères le louaient et le favorisaient aussi en souvenir de son père, mais il tomba au milieu de sa course. En effet, lors de la proposition Mamilia, sous le poids de l'impopularité née de la conjuration de Jugurtha, il parla lui-même pour sa défense, mais fut accablé. Sa péroraison, appelée épilogue, subsiste; lorsque nous étions enfants, elle jouissait d'un tel honneur que nous l'apprenions même par cœur. Membre du collège des prêtres, il fut le premier, depuis la fondation de Rome, à être condamné dans un procès public.»