Of the elderly and sensible citizens, some who were directly opposed to this plan were overborne by the clamour and violence of the war party, and others, seeing this, absented themselves from the assembly.
Edition :
Plutarch Lives IX: Demetrius and Antony, Pyrrhus and Caius Marius, Ed. Jeffrey Henderson, trans. Bernadotte Perrin (The Loeb Classical Library 101), Harvard University Press: Cambridge/MA - London 1968 (first ed. 1920).
Remark :
thirdperson: We assume the second group of people left the assembly in an orderly manner while the first fled the violence. Thus, we listed the reactions differently. titel: After the opposition to the war has been silenced, the war party actually called on Pyrrhus for help against Rome and he accepted. This is mentioned in 13.5-6.
