Quod postquam Romae cognitum est et res in senatu agitari coepta, idem illi ministri regis interpellando ac saepe gratia, interdum iurgiis trahundo tempus, atrocitatem facti leniebant.
When this became known at Rome and the matter came under discussion in the senate, those same accomplices of the king, by interrupting the discussions and often by personal influence'occasionally by dragging out the time with wrangling'tried to mitigate the atrocity of the deed.
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