quae quia constituunt, dicant cur condita sit lex bis sex in tabulis aut cur rubrica minetur, quae prohibet peccare reos, quos ferrea fata cogunt ad facinus et inevitabile mergunt.
But since this is what they lay down, let them tell us why law was established on the Twelve Tables, why a statute which forbids wrong-doing holds out its threats, when it is an iron fate that drives wrongdoers to commit the crime and plunges them into it perforce.
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