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The Allobroges, however, were long in suspense what course to take. On one side were pressing debts, a passion for war, and the prospect of great advantages from victory: on the other, superior power, safe measures, and instead of uncertain hopes, a certain recompense. While they were thus balancing, the fortune of Rome prevailed.29 Accordingly, they discovered all they knew of the conspiracy to Q. Fabius Sanga, on whose patronage their nation chiefly depended. Cicero, apprized of the matter by Sanga, ordered the deputies to feign a mutiny zeal for the conspiracy, to go to the rest of the accomplices, to promise largely, and endeavour to bring them under as clear conviction as possible.