Hanc sui famam ea statim contione commoverat, qua recitatis Vespasiani epistulis non ut plerique incerta disseruit, huc illuc tracturus interpretatione, prout conduxisset: aperte descendisse in causam videbatur, eoque gravior militibus erat culpae vel gloriae socius.
This reputation Primus had won in that assembly from the moment in his harangue when, after reading out the letter of Vespasian, he did not talk in equivocal terms, ready to put this or that interpretation on Vespasians words to his own advantage, as the others had done; but he seemed to have openly joined Vespasians cause; therefore he carried the greater weight with the soldiers, for he was now an accomplice in their fault or a partner in their glory.
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