Haud multo deinceps, duo agentes in rebus, ex his qui proiecti sunt, eum adiere fidentius, promittentes latebras monstrare Florentii, si eis gradus militiae redderetur, quos incessens delatoresque appellans addebat non esse imperatorium, obliquis flecti indiciis ad retrahendum hominem mortis metu absconditum, qui forte non diu latitare citra spem veniae permitteretur.
Not long after this, two former members of the secret service who were among those who had been discharged approached the emperor confidently and promised to point out the hiding-place of Florentius on condition that their military rank be restored to them. But he rebuked them and called them informers, adding that it was not worthy of an emperor to be led by indirect information to bring back a man who had concealed himself through fear of death, and who perhaps would not be allowed to remain long in hiding without hope of pardon.
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