Adsumptus es in laborum curarumque consortium, nec te prospera et laeta stationis istius, sed aspera et dura ad capessendam eam compulerunt: suscepisti imperium, postquam alium suscepti paenitebat.
You were summoned to partake in his labors and misfortunes, and it was not the delights and triumphs of his status that obliged you, but its hardships and sufferings. You took charge only when he desired to be free of it.