Ac forte habita per illos dies de Votieno Montano, celebris ingenii viro, cognitio cunctantem iam Tiberium perpulit, ut vitandos crederet patrum coetus vocesque, quae plerumque verae et graves coram ingerebantur.
As chance would have it, the trial at this juncture of the popular and talented Votienus Mon-tanus forced Tiberius (who was already wavering) to the conviction that he must avoid the meetings of the senate and the remarks, often equally true and mordant, which were there repeated to his face.
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