Licet ergo cum fortuna tum liberalitas tua visenda nobis praebuerit, ut praebuit, nunc ingentia robora virorum et pares animos, nunc immanitatem ferarum, nunc mansuetudinem incognitam, nunc secretas illas et arcanas ac sub te primum communes opes, nihil tamen gratius, nihil saeculo dignius, quam quod contigit desuper intueri delatorum supina ora retortasque cervices.
So although your high estate and generosity enabled you to present the spectacle we saw, first men whose spirit matched their mighty physique, then animals in their natural state of savagery and also tamed in unexpected degree, then the riches hitherto kept hidden in secret and now, in your reign, to be shared by all; yet nothing was so popular, nothing so fitting for our times as the opportunity we enjoyed of looking down at the informers at our feet, their heads forced back and faces upturned to meet our gaze.
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