Itaque consulente Cicerone frequens senatus decernit Tarquini indicium falsum videri eumque in vinculis retinendum, neque amplius potestatem faciundam, nisi de eo indicaret quoius consilio tantam rem esset mentitus.
Accordingly, upon Cicero putting the question, a full senate voted that the disclosure of Tarquinius in their view was false; that he should be kept in bonds and given no further opportunity to testify unless he revealed the identity of the man at whose instigation he had concocted such a monstrous lie.
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