Igitur multa adseveratione, quasi aut legibus cum Silio ageretur aut Varro consul aut illud res publica esset, coguntur patres.
With scrupulous gravity, therefore, as though Silius were on his trial before the law, as though Varro were a consul or that state of things a commonwealth, the Fathers were convened.
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