Camillus et Postumius censores aera poenae nomine eos qui ad senectutem caelibes pervenerant in aerarium deferre iusserunt, iterum puniri dignos, si quidem de tam iusta constitutione queri sunt ausi, cum in hunc modum increparentur: Natura vobis quemadmodum nascendi ita gignendi legem scribit, parentesque vos alendo nepotum nutriendorum debito, si quis est pudor, alligaverunt.
Censors Camillus and Postumius ordered persons who had reached old age as bachelors to pay copper coins to the treasury as a penalty. They deserved a second punishment for daring to protest against so just an ordinance in the face of a rebuke such as this: Nature writes a law for us; as we are born, so must we beget. By raising you your parents bound you in decency with a debt to bring up grandchildren.
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