Is fatali quodam motu (neque enim ante specimen constantiae dederat) seu prava sollertia, dum imminentium oblitus incerta pavet, inserere se dubitantibus ac monere consules, ne relationem inciperent; disserebatque brevibus momentis summa verti: posse quandoque domus Germanici exitium paenitentiae esse seni.
Under some fatal impulse'for he had never before given an indication of courage'or possibly through a misapplied acuteness which made him blind to dangers imminent and terrified of dangers uncertain, Rusticus insinuated himself among the doubters and warned the consuls not to introduce the question'A touch, he insisted, could turn the scale in the gravest of matters: it was possible that some day the extinction of the house of Germanicus might move the old mans penitence.
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