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All those, too, who were of any party opposed to that of the senate, were desirous rather that the state should be embroiled, than that they themselves should be out of power. This was an evil, which, after many years, had returned upon the community to the extent to which it now prevailed.This was an evil—to the extent to which it now prevailed] Id adeò malum multos post annos in civitatem reverterat. "Adeo," says Cortius, "is particular elegantissima." Allen makes it equivalent to eò usque.