Namque antea pleraque nobilitas invidia aestuabat et quasi pollui consulatum credebant, si eum quamvis egregius homo novos adeptus foret.
For previously most of the nobles seethed with jealousy and thought the consulship sullied, as it were, if a new man, no matter how outstanding, obtained it.
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