Haec in commune, ceterum timore occulto, ne L. Silanus eximia nobilitate disciplinaque G Cassii, apud quem educatus erat, ad omnem claritudinem sublatus imperium invaderet, prompte daturis, qui a coniuratione integri essent quique miserarentur Neronem tamquam per scelus interfectum..
This was for the general ear: actually he had an unconfessed misgiving that Lucius Silanus 'who, thanks to his exalted lineage and to the training of Gaius Cassius, with whom he had been educated, stood high enough for any dignity'might grasp at the empire; which would be promptly offered to him by the persons who had held aloof from the plot or who pitied Nero as the victim of a murder.
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