at ille sic ira celer, quod piger mole, ceu draco e specu vix evolutus iam metu exanguibus Gabalitanis e proximo infertur; quos singulos sparsos inoppidatos nunc inauditis indictionum generibus exhaurit, nunc flexuosa calumniarum fraude circumretit, ne tum quidem domum laboriosos redire permittens, cum tributum annuum datavere.
But Seronatus is as quick in temper as he is lumbering in bulk; the Gabelitans are already pale with terror as from close quarters he bears down upon them like a snake only just uncoiling from its den; scattered individuals in a sparsely populated country, not in a compact township, he sometimes drains them dry with unheard-of kinds of imposts or again ensnares them in the tortuous guile of false accusations; and not even when they have paid him an annual tribute, does he allow the poor wretches to return home.
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