cernebat Paulus (namque huic communia Campus iura atque arma tulit) labi, mergente sinistro consule, res pessumque dari; sed mobilis ira est turbati vulgi, signataque mente cicatrix undantes aegro frenabat corde dolores.
Paulus, to whom the voters had given equal power and authority with Varro, saw that the state was rushing on to ruin, destroyed by the ill-omened consul. But the anger of a turbulent mob is easily stirred; and the scar of an ancient wrong, imprinted on his memory, checked the wave of resentment in his troubled breast.
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