Vniversa iam plebs Palatium implebat, mixtis servitiis et dissono clamore caedem Othonis et coniuratorum exitium poscentium ut si in circo aut theatro ludicrum aliquod postularent: neque illis iudicium aut veritas, quippe eodem die diversa pari certamine postulaturis, sed tradito more quemcumque principem adulandi licentia adclamationum et studiis inanibus.
So grammatically, neque ... veritas is a sentence with Dative possesoris (they didn't have) and postulatoris is in the same Dative (illis postulatoris). How to connect then the next part? My Commentary says this is an Ablative Absolute but I can't understand how. Licentia ... inanibus is an Ablative of Manner. Tradito more ... adulandi should then be the Ablative absolute. But I don't know how to dissolve it into normal dependant clause.
So grammatically, neque ... veritas is a sentence with Dative possesoris (they didn't have) and postulatoris is in the same Dative (illis postulatoris). How to connect then the next part? My Commentary says this is an Ablative Absolute but I can't understand how. Licentia ... inanibus is an Ablative of Manner. Tradito more ... adulandi should then be the Ablative absolute. But I don't know how to dissolve it into normal dependant clause.