id postquam senatui relatum est, accersito iuvene quam potuit accurata excusatione usus est, quod nec quaestorem illi more maiorum obviam misisset nec publico eum hospitio excepisset, eaque non sua neglegentia, sed ipsius subito et clandestino adventu facta dixit, et illum e curia protinus ad publicos penates deduxit, hortatusque est ut depositis sordibus adeundi ipsius diem peteret.
When this was reported to the senate, they sent for the young man and offered excuses as elaborate as they could make them for not having sent a Quaestor to meet him according to traditional custom and not receiving him with public hospitality. This, they said, was not due to negligence on their part but to his own sudden and clandestine arrival. They then conducted him straight from the senate house to state quarters and encouraged him to put off his mean attire and ask for a day on which to approach their body.
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