licuit dissentire discedere, et copiam iudicii sui rei publicae facere; consulti omnes atque etiam dinumerati sumus, vicitque sententia non prima sed melior.
he was free to disagree, to vote in opposition, and to give the State the benefit of his views. We were all consulted and even reckoned with, and the sentence which carried the day was the better one, and not merely the first proposed.
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