Erigebat tamen aliquotiens animum ad multa et urguentia, tutissimum ratus inimicum se ex confesso monstrare, ei cuius ex praeteritis motus coniectabat ut prudens, ne per amicitias fictas insidiis falleretur occultis.
Sometimes, however, he took courage to meet many urgent affairs, thinking it far safer to show himself an open enemy to one whose conduct he, as a sagacious prince, could infer from the past, for fear of being deceived by secret plots under cover of a feigned friendship.
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