Ira vulgi Albani, quod tribus...

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Ira vulgi Albani, quod tribus militibus fortuna publica commissa erat, ingenium dictatoris corrupit, et quoniam recta consilia haud bene evenerant, pravis consiliis reconciliare popularium animos coepit.

The anger of the Albani plebs, because the public fortunes had been spent by three soldiers, began to corrupt the mind of the dictator, and because clear thinking could hardly take place, began to turn the minds of the plebs towards evil thoughts.

Am I right in taking it that the subject of animos near the end of the sentence is Ira at the beginning?

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The dictator is the subject of coepit at the end of the sentence. Animos is the direct object of reconciliare.

“The anger of the Alban rabble–over the fact that [quod] the fortunes of the nation had been entrusted [commissa] to three soldiers–corrupted the character of the dictator, and since good ideas [concilia] had not turned out well, he began to reconcile the minds of the people [to himself] [i.e., he began to try to recover the favor of the people] with bad ideas.”

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Many thanks.