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Reconciliavit paulisper studia patrum habita in senatu cognitio secundum veterem morem. Manlius Patruitus senator pulsatum se in colonia Seniensi (in colonia Seniensi: modern Siena in Tuscany) coetu multitudinis (coetu multitudinis: lit. ‘by the gathering of a crowd’) et (et: here with the sense of etenim, ‘indeed’) iussu magistratuum querebatur; nec finem iniuriae hic stetisse: planctum et lamenta et supremorum imaginem praesenti sibi circumdata (planctum et lamenta et supremorum imaginem praesenti sibi circumdata [esse]: lit. ‘that the beating of the breast, wailing, and the semblance of a funeral had been performed around himself [thereto] present’; supremorum is genitive plural of suprema, ‘funeral rites’; praesenti sibi is dative with circumdare.) cum contumeliis ac probris, quae in senatum universum iacerentur. (quae … iacerentur: subjunctive for rel. clause in indir. discourse.) vocati qui arguebantur, et cognita causa in convictos vindicatum, (in convictos vindicatum [est]: impersonal use of passive, ‘it was visited punishment on the guilty’.) additumque senatus consultum quo Seniensium plebes modestiae admoneretur. (quo … plebes modestiae admoneretur: ‘that thereby the common people be reminded of decent behaviour’; quo (ut eo, ‘that thereby’) replaces ut in final clauses especially when a comparative is present; cf. also quo rectius …spectaret in next chapter. plebs -is or plebes, –ei, ‘the common people’) isdem diebus Antonius Flamma (Antonius Flamma: governor of Crete and Cyrene, which formed a single province) <accusantibus> Cyrenensibus (Cyrenensibus: dative of advantage, ‘in the interest of …’; Cyrenenses are the people of Cyrene, a town in Cyrenaica in N. Africa, west of Egypt.) damnatur lege repetundarum (lege repetundarum: or lege pecuniae repetundae: lit. ‘under the law of money to be recovered’ or ‘under the law against extorsion’; cf. also note for repetundarum criminibus ceciderant, Book 1, ch. 77.) et exilio ob saevitiam.