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Alium crederes (crederes: potential subjunctive, the subject being an indefinite ‘you’) senatum, alium populum: ruere cuncti in castra, anteire proximos, certare cum praecurrentibus, increpare Galbam, laudare militum iudicium, exosculari Othonis manum; quantoque magis falsa erant quae fiebant, tanto plura facere. (quanto magis falsa erant quae fiebant, tanto plura facere: example of comparative sentence with quanto …tanto used correlatively with comparatives, quanto magis introducing the dependent clause and tanto plura the main clause: ‘the more hypocritical were the things that were done, the more [of them] they did’; facere is hist. infinitive, like ruere, anteire, certare, increpare, laudare, and exosculari above) nec aspernabatur singulos Otho, avidum et minacem militum animum voce vultuque temperans. Marium Celsum, consulem designatum et Galbae usque in extremas res amicum fidumque, ad supplicium expostulabant, industriae eius innocentiaeque quasi malis artibus infensi. (industriae eius innocentiaeque quasi malis artibus infensi: infensus requires dative, ‘furious at the industry and honesty of Celsus as if they were defects’.) caedis et praedarum initium et optimo cuique perniciem quaeri apparebat, (caedis et praedarum initium et optimo cuique perniciem quaeri apparebat: lit. ‘it was obvious that a beginning of slaughter and pillage and the ruin for all good citizens was being sought’; the impersonal apparebat is followed by infinitive with its subjects initium and perniciem in the accusative; cf. A.G. 454, 455; optimo cuique: cf. note for rapacissimo cuique ac perditissimo, ch. 20.) sed Othoni nondum auctoritas inerat ad prohibendum scelus: iubere iam poterat. ita simulatione irae vinciri iussum (simulatione irae vinciri iussum … exitio subtraxit: lit. ‘by the simulatione of anger, [Otho] rescued [Celsus], ordered to be chained, from death’; simulatione is abl. of instrument.) et maiores poenas daturum adfirmans praesenti exitio subtraxit.