neque [enim] valuissemus aliquid in commune consulere, nisi iudicii sui faciens plebs lenita iacturam sacerdotali se potius iudicio subdidisset, presbyterorum sane paucis angulatim fringultientibus, porro autem palam ne mussitantibus quidem, quia plerique non minus suum quam reliquos ordines pertimescebant.
We should not have managed to take any common counsel if the mass of the people had not calmed down and, sacrificing their own judgment, submitted themselves to priestly judgment; it is true that a few of the presbyters twittered in holes and corners, but they did not make even the slightest murmur in public, because most of them were as much afraid of their own order as of the other orders;
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