Idemque postea, cum innumerabilis multitudo bonorum de Capitolio supplex ad eum sordidata venisset cumque adolescentes nobilissimi cunctique equites Romani se ad lenonis impudicissimi pedes abiecissent, quo vultu cincinnatus ganeo non solum civium lacrimas, verum etiam patriae preces repudiavit!
He it was, too, who not long afterwards, when a countless throng of patriots from the Capitol approached him with humble deference and in the guise of mourning, and when young men of the highest rank and the whole body of Roman knights flung themselves before the feet of a shameless procurer, brazenly, like the curled debauchee he was, treated with contempt not merely the tears of his fellow-citizens, but even the prayers of his country.
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