Ac ne sine causa videretur edixisse ut senatus adesset, cum de re publica relaturus fuisset, adlato nuntio de legione quarta mente concidit, et fugere festinans senatus consultum de supplicatione per discessionem fecit, cum id factum esset antea numquam.
And when he was about to lay the state of the Republic before the senate, he lost his nerve when news arrived about the Fourth Legion, and so as not to appear to have summoned the meeting for nothing, being eager to run away, he had the decree for the public thanksgiving carried by a floor vote, even though this was an unprecedented procedure
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