dum superesset ille, timens ne proderetur, tractabilis erat et mollior; postremo quod tamquam subterraneus serpens, per humiliora reptando, nondum maiores funerum excitare poterat causas.
so long as he survived, Maximinus was more yielding and mild, for fear that he might be betrayed'finally, because while creeping through low places like a serpent under ground he could not yet stir up causes for death on a larger scale.
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