1. Scīpiōnis sententiā praestat genus reī pūblicae quod est aequātum et temperātum [= ratiōne mixtum] ex tribus prīmīs generibus.
2. Haec rēs pūblica cum aequābilitātem, tum fīrmitūdinem/fīrmitātem [< fīrmus] habet, nam ē rēge tyrannus exsistere/existere [= orīrī] potest, ex optimātibus factiō, ē populō turba et cōnfūsiō [= tumultus].
3. Scīpiō rem publicam Rōmānam cōnstitūtiōne et discrīptiōne [< discrībere] potestātis cēterīs omnibus praestāre cēnset.
4. Ergō ad exemplum rem pūblicam Rōmānam expōnet, atque ad eam accommodābit [< ad + commodus] omnem suam ōrātiōnem dē optimō statū cīvitātis.
5. Rōmulus et Remus silvestris [< silva] bēluae [= ferae] ūberibus sustentātī esse perhibentur [= exīstimantur].
6. Rōmā conditā, Rōmulus perceleriter [= celerrimē] rem pūblicam fīrmāvit, nam, raptīs virginibus Sabīnīs, cum rēge T. Tatiō foedus īcit, quō Sabīnōs in cīvitātem ascīvit/adscīvit [= assūmpsit] sacrīs commūnicātīs [< commūnis].
7. Ipsae Sabīnae fuerant ōrātrīcēs [< ōrāre] pācis.
8. Post interitum [< interīre] Tatiī dominātus ad Rōmulum reccidit [< re- + cadere].
9. Is in rēgium cōnsilium dēlēgit prīncipēs, quō fultus [= sustentātus] bella prospera gessit et ex praedā cīvēs suōs locuplētāvit [< locuplēs].
10. Rōmulus, quī ipse auspiciīs ūsus est, trēs augurēs sibi cooptāvit [= ascīvit].
11. Rōmulus rēx tantum assecūtus [= cōnsecūtus] est ut, cum subitō sole obscūrātō [< obscūrus] nōn compāruisset [= appāruisset], deus factus esse putārētur.
12. Proculus Iūlius, vir subagrestis [= satis agrestis], impulsū patrum [= ā patribus impulsus] dīxisse fertur [= nārrātur] 'sibi in colle Quirīnālī obvium fuisse Rōmulum deum.'
13. Rōmulus deus 'Quirīnus' nūncupātus [= nōminātus] est.
14. Rōmulus novum populum nōn ut in cūnābulīs [= cūnīs] vāgientem, sed iam adultum [< adolēscere] relīquit.
15. Scīpiō ob Gracchōrum ferōcitātem [< ferōx] rem pūblicam labefactātam [= quassātam] esse cēnsēbat.