respondere legati, quamquam valde nequiter, constaret quod ipse dictasset at ubi se furens ille quantumque caderet ignarus bis terque repetita confessione transfodit, acclamatur ab accusatoribus, conclamatur a iudicibus reum laesae maiestatis confitentem teneri.
The delegates replied (very mischievously, indeed) that it should be taken as an agreed point that he had dictated it. But when the madman, not realising his blunder, repeated his avowal two or three times and so dealt himself his death-blow, the accusers raised a shout in which the judges joined, declaring that the accused was guilty of high treason on his own confession.
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