At C. Memmius advocata contione, quamquam regi infesta plebes erat et pars in vincula duci iubebat, pars, nisi socios sceleris sui aperiret, more maiorum de hoste supplicium sumi, dignitati quam irae magis consulens sedare motus et animos eorum mollire, postremo confirmare, fidem publicam per sese inviolatam fore
But when Gaius Memmius called a public meeting and the commons were hostile to the king (some demanding his imprisonment, others that he be punished as an enemy of the state after the usage of our forefathers, if he did not reveal the accomplices in his crime), Memmius, consulting the interests of propriety rather than anger, quieted their excitement and soothed their spirits; finally he declared that the pledge of public protection would not be broken so far as it lay within his power.
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