Procedunt conspicui divitiis, veste fulgentes, circumdati adsentatione multorum: discrimenque certaminis subire maluerunt, quam in populo quem subverterant pudorem taciturnitatis incurrere, ne viderentur se ipsi silentio damnavisse.
They came forth richly appointed, gorgeously apparelled, accompanied by a number of flattering favourers, choosing rather to commit their cause to the hazard of open contention, than fall into the shame of speechlessness, for fear that in the eyes of the people, whom they had subverted, they should seem to have given sentence against themselves by their own silence.
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