Philippiques Passage 4

lux quaedam videbatur oblata non modo regno, quod pertuleramus, sed etiam regni timore sublato, magnumque pignus ab eo rei publicae datum, se liberam civitatem esse velle, cum dictatoris nomen, quod saepe iustum fuisset, propter perpetuae dictaturae recentem memoriam funditus ex re publica sustulisset.

A kind of light seemed to have been offered, with not only the monarchy that we had endured abolished, but even the fear of monarchy removed. He had given the republic a great pledge that he wished the community to be free, since he had utterly abolished from the republic the title of dictator, which had often been legitimate, because of the recent memory of the perpetual dictatorship.

Une lumière semblait s'être levée: non seulement la royauté que nous avions subie avait disparu, mais encore la crainte de la voir revenir. Il donnait à la République un grand gage de sa volonté que la cité fût libre, puisqu'il avait aboli radicalement le titre de dictateur, souvent légitime autrefois, à cause du récent souvenir de la dictature perpétuelle.