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... nummos. quae quamquam popularia in inritum cadebant, quia pervaserat...

in inritum cadebant: L. & S. cites this passage for the "tropical" meaning of "cado": With in and acc.:...Esp. in (ad) irritum or cassum, to be frustrated, fail, be or remain fruitless: “omnia in cassum cadunt,” Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 147; Lucr. 2, 1166: “ad irritum cadens spes,” Liv. 2, 6, 1; so Tac. H. 3, 26: “in irritum,” id. A. 15, 39;