Nec ignoro in conviviis et circulis incusari ista et modum posci; set si quis legem sanciat, poenas indicat, idem illi civitatem verti, splendidissimo cuique exitium parari, neminem criminis expertem clamitabunt.
I am aware that at dinner-parties and social gatherings these things are condemned, and the call is for restriction; but let any one pass a law and prescribe a penalty, and the same voices will be uplifted against this subversion of the state, this death-blow to all magnificence, this charge of which not a man is guiltless!
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