Itaque illis inrogatum est, his remissum, videlicet quod manifestum erat quanto cum dolore laturi seu potius non laturi homines essent destringi aliquid et abradi bonis, quae sanguine gentilitate sacrorum denique societate meruissent, quaeque numquam ut aliena et speranda sed ut sua semperque possessa ac deinceps proximo cuique transmittenda cepissent.
And so hitherto it was applied to the former cases and remitted in the latter, doubtless because it was obvious how hardly men would accept'or rather, not accept'any reduction and diminution of the property assured them through ties of blood and kinship and the bond of family rites, something which they had never considered as an expectation from anothers hands but as their own permanent possession, to be passed on one day to their nearest relative in their turn.
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