quibusdam coalitam libertate inreverentiam eo prorupisse  frementibus, ut ne aequo quidem cum patronis iure agerent, patientiam eorum insultarent ac verberibus manus ultro intenderent, impune vel poenam suam ipsi suadentes.
Some were indignant that insolence, grown harder with liberty, had reached a point where freedmen were no longer content to be equal before the law with their patrons, but mocked their tameness and actually raised their hands to strike, without punishment'or with a punishment suggested by themselves!
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