Eadem Galli fatentur ac Lentulum dissimulantem coarguunt praeter litteras sermonibus quos ille habere solitus erat: ex libris Sibyllinis regnum Romae tribus Corneliis portendi; Cinnam atque Sullam antea, se tertium esse quoi fatum foret urbis potiri; praeterea ab incenso Capitolio illum esse vigesumum annum, quem saepe ex prodigiis haruspices respondissent bello civili cruentum fore.
The Gauls made the same admissions, and when Lentulus tried to conceal his involvement, they proved him guilty (in addition to the evidence of his letter) by means of oral remarks which he had been in the habit of making, to the effect that according to the Sibylline books, sovereignty over Rome was portended for three Cornelii; that there had already been Cinna and Sulla, and that he was the third who was destined to gain control of the City; furthermore, that reckoning from the burning of the Capitol, this was the twentieth year, which according to portents the soothsayers had often declared would be bloody as a result of civil war.
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