Quantum diversitas temporum posset, tum maxime cognitum est, cum isdem quibus antea cautibus innocentissimus quisque, tunc nocentissimus adfigeretur, cumque insulas omnes, quas modo senatorum, iam delatorum turba compleret; quos quidem non in praesens tantum, sed in aeternum repressisti, mille poenarum indagine inclusos.
Then indeed we knew how times had changed; the real criminals were nailed to the very rocks which had been the cross of many an innocent man; the islands where senators were exiled were crowded with the informers whose power you had broken for all time, not merely for a day, held fast as they were in the meshes of punishments untold. They set out to rob other men of money: now let them lose their own.
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