Et haec quidem suppliciter ordo et populus precabatur, sed ventis loquebantur in cassum, imperatore (ut fingebat, alia metuens), periurii piacula declinante.
But suppliantly as the council and people entreated, all was spoken vainly to the winds, since the emperor (as he pretended, while moved by other fears) did not wish to incur the guilt of perjury.
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