Qui intromissi data potestate offerunt scripta, hisque recitatis, ultra modum solitae indignationis excanduit imperator, limibusque oculis eos ad usque metum contuens mortis, egredi iussit, nihil post haec percontatus, vel audire perpessus.
When the envoys were given audience, they presented their letters, but no sooner were they read than the emperor burst out in an immoderate blaze of anger, and looking at them askance in such a way that they feared for their lives, he ordered them to get out, asking no further questions and refusing to listen to anything.
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