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... interiectum moverat famam. vulgoque fingebant petitum ab eo Corbulonem,...

Perhaps with "vulgo" it means "there were reports circulating among the multitude that...."; cf. L. & S. s.v. "fing": With an object-clause, and in pass., with a subject-clause: “finge, aliquem nunc fierisapientem, nondum esse,” suppose, Cic. Ac. 2, 36, 117: “finge solum natum nothum,” Quint. 3, 6, 100.—Ellipt.: interfecti aliqui sunt; “finge a nobis,”