auctoritas personae, opportunitas praesentiae tuae inter coram positos facile valebit, si dignabitur, seriem totius indagare violentiae, quae, quod gravius est, eo facinoris accessit, quantum portitorum datur nosse memoratu, ut etiam in illo latrocinio quendam de numero viantum constet extinctum.
If you will deign to meet the parties face to face, you with your personal prestige and the advantage of your actual presence will have no difficulty in worming from them the whole story of this outrage, which has an even more serious side; for, as far as one can discover from the evidence of the bearers, the affair went to such atrocious lengths that one of the travellers on the road is actually known to have lost his life in the course of the kidnapping.
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