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itaque maiores nostri raro id accidere voluerunt,
praetores ut considerate fieret comparaverunt. viri boni cum
palam fraudantur, cum experiendi potestas non est, timide
tamen et pedetemptim istuc descendunt vi ac necessitate
coacti, inviti, multis vadimoniis desertis, saepe inlusi ac
destituti; considerant enim quid et quantum sit alterius
bona proscribere. iugulare civem ne iure quidem quisquam
bonus volt, mavolt commemorari se cum posset perdere
pepercisse, quam cum parcere potuerit perdidisse. haec
in homines alienissimos, denique in inimicissimos viri boni
faciunt et hominum existimationis et communis humanitatis
causa, ut, cum ipsi nihil alteri scientes incommodarint, nihil
ipsis iure incommodi cadere possit.
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