et quidem obtinuerunt ut ius per continuos viginti annos servatum aboleretur: non enim providerunt saeculi illius viri ad quem cumulum tenderet insoliti cultus pertinax studium aut quo se usque effusura esset legum victrix audacia.
And they did in fact succeed in getting abolished a statute that had been observed for twenty years. For the men of that epoch did not foresee to what a pitch the insistent urge for unaccustomed finery was leading or how far audacity victorious over the laws would spread.
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