Haec dicente rege, faverunt adsidentes quique sive adstantes, maiores una cum mediocribus; et abdicata minus perfecta institutione, ad ea quae meliora cognoverant, sese transferre festinabant.
When the king so spake, all that sat or stood by, the greater along with them of mean degree, gave their consent thereto; and abandoning their former imperfect usage hastened to change over to those things which they had learned to be better.
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