Sed ubi consulem ad tantum facinus inpellere nequeunt, ipsi singillatim circumeundo atque ementiundo quae se ex Volturcio aut Allobrogibus audisse dicerent, magnam illi invidiam conflaverant, usque eo ut nonnulli equites Romani, qui praesidi causa cum telis erant circum aedem Concordiae, seu periculi magnitudine seu animi mobilitate inpulsi, quo studium suom in rem publicam clarius esset, egredienti ex senatu Caesari gladio minitarentur.
But when they were not able to induce the consul to such an outrageous deed, they themselves, by going around individually and making up false reports of what they said they had heard from Volturcius or the Allobroges, stirred up great hostility against Caesar to such an extent that some Roman knights, who were stationed as an armed guard around the temple of Concord, roused either by the magnitude of the danger or by their own excitability, threatened Caesar with their swords when he was exiting the senate, so that their devotion to their country might be all the more manifest.
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