Quod die hesterno tractatui civitatis in concilio defuisti, ex industria factum pars melior accepit, quae suspicata est id te cavere, ne tuis umeris onus futurae legationis imponeretur.
Your failure to be present at yesterdays debate in the city council was considered by the better sort to be intentional. They suspected that you wished to avoid having the burden of the coming embassy placed upon your shoulders.
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