Haec primo paulatim crescere, interdum vindicari; post, ubi contagio quasi pestilentia invasit, civitas inmutata, imperium ex iustissumo atque optumo crudele intolerandumque factum.
These vices grew little by little at first; from time to time they were punished; later, when the disease had spread like a deadly plague, the community was changed, and governmental authority, instead of being the most just and best, became cruel and intolerable.
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