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... et populi temptare. si conatibus eius conscii adgregarentur, secuturos...

conatibus eius conscii adgregarentur: This is not a contrafactual condition, as the fut. inf. indicates; it's either a fut. more vivid ("if you do this, those not in the conspiracy will follow") or a fut. less vivid ("if you should do this, they would follow") in historic sequence; the distinction between more vivid (real) conditions and less vivid, "should/would" conditions (using the pres. subj. is lost in obliqua, since both the fut. indicative in a real condition and the pres. subj. in a fut. less. vivid condition become imperf. subj. when the (here implied) verb of speaking is in a historic tense.