cumque de capessendo diademate coniuratio Marcelliniana coqueretur, nobilium iuventuti signiferum sese in factione praebuerat, homo adhuc novus in senectute, donec aliquando propter experimenta felicis audaciae natalium eius obscuritati dedit hiantis interregni rima fulgorem.
Later, when the conspiracy of Marcellinus to assume the diadem was being hatched, he presented himself to the young nobles as their ringleader, still a new man in his old age; till in the end, thanks to some strokes of lucky audacity on his part, the chink of a gaping interregnum let in a ray of glory upon the obscurity of his birth.
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