audivit Tiberius probra, quis per occultum lacerabatur, adeoque perculsus est, ut se vel statim vel in cognitione purgaturum clamitaret precibusque proximorum, adulatione omnium aegre componeret animum.
Tiberius thus heard the scurrilities with which he was attacked in private; and such was the shock that he kept crying out he would refute them, either on the spot or in the course of the trial; his equanimity being restored with difficulty by the entreaties of his friends and the adulation of all.
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