Quid? Sulla, dum huic vitio obtemperat, nonne multo alieno sanguine profuso ad ultimum et suum erogavit? Puteolis enim ardens indignatione, quod Granius princeps eius coloniae pecuniam a decurionibus ad refectionem Capitolii promissam cunctantius daret, animi concitatione nimia atque immoderato vocis impetu convulso pectore, spiritum cruore ac minis mixtum evomuit, nec senio iam prolapsus, utpote sexagesimum ingrediens annum, sed alita miseriis rei publicae impotentia furens.
Again: obeying this vice, did not Sulla shed other peoples blood in plenty and finally pay out his own? For at Puteoli, in a fit of irritation because Granius, the leading man in that colony, was rather slow in giving money promised by the decurions for the reconstruction of the Capitol, his breast convulsed with excessive agitation of mind and immoderate shouting, he vomited his life-breath mingled with blood and threats. He did not collapse from old age (he was entering his sixtieth year) but from an ungovernable temper fostered in the miseries of the commonwealth.
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