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69.
Haud facile dictu est, legati Helvetiorum minus
placabilem imperatorem an militem invenerint. civitatis excidium poscunt, tela ac manus in ora legatorum intentant. ne
Vitellius quidem verbis et minis temperabat, cum Claudius
Cossus, unus ex legatis, notae facundiae sed dicendi artem
apta trepidatione occultans atque eo validior, militis animum
mitigavit. ut est mos, vulgus mutabile subitis et tam pronum in
misericordiam quam immodicum saevitia fuerat: effusis lacrimis et meliora constantius postulando impunitatem salutemque
civitati impetravere.
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