Obtinuit aliquis ut spectaculum pantomimorum populus Romanus tolli pateretur, sed non obtinuit ut vellet: rogatus es tu quod cogebat alius, coepitque esse beneficium quod necessitas fuerat.
Someone did indeed succeed in suppresssing the mimes and persuading the Roman people to put up with this, though he did not succeed in making them willing to do so. But in your case, the people asked you to take the measures which the other had imposed, seeing them now as a public benefit and not an enforced necessity,
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