Blaesus multa dicendi arte non per seditionem et turbas desideria mili tum ad Caesarem ferenda ait: neque veteres ab imperatoribus priscis, neque ipsos a divo Augusto tam nova petivisse; et parum in tempore incipientis principis curas onerari.
Blaesus then addressed them with great skill:'Mutiny and riot, he observed, were not the best ways of conveying a soldiers aspirations to his sovereign. No such revolutionary proposals had been submitted either by their predecessors to the captains of an earlier day or by themselves to Augustus of happy memory; and it was an ill-timed proceeding to aggravate the embarrassments which confronted a prince on his accession.
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