In illa quoque procella quam C. Marius et L. Cinna rei publicae inflixerant, abstinentia populi Romani mirifica conspecta est: nam cum a se proscriptorum penates vulgi manibus diripiendos obiecissent, inveniri nemo potuit qui civili luctu praedam peteret: unus enim quisque se ab his perinde ac si a sacris aedibus abstinuit.
Also in the tempest which C. Marius and L. Cinna had brought down upon the commonwealth the abstinence of the Roman people came marvellously to view. For although they had offered the houses of those they proscribed for plunder at the hands of the common folk, nobody could be found to seek booty from the mourning of citizens. Everyone kept away from them as though from sacred edifices.
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