Et initium faciente Cossutiano, maiore vi Marcellus summam rem publicam agi clamitabat; contumacia inferiorum lenitatem imperitantis deminui.
The attack was opened by Cossutianus; then Marcellus declaimed with greater violence:'Supreme interests of state were at issue: the contumacity of his inferiors was wearing down the lenience of the sovereign.
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