Sic a maioribus institutum ut, si antissent delicta, poenae sequerentur: ne verterent sapienter reperta et semper placita.
It was on this principle their fore-fathers had ruled that, if an offence had preceded, punishment should follow; and they must not now overturn a system wisely invented and always observed.
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