Quem enim diem vacuum poena, ubi inter sacra et vota, quo tempore verbis etiam profanis abstineri mos esset, vincla et laqueus inducantur? Non inprudentem Tiberium tantam invidiam adisse, set quaesitum meditatumque, ne quid impedire credatur, quo minus novi magistratus, quo modo delubra et altaria, sic carcerem recludant.
For what day would find the killers idle, when amid sacrifices and prayers, at a season when custom prohibited so much as an ominous word, chains and the halter came upon the scene? Not from want of thought had odium such as this been incurred by Tiberius: it was a premeditated and deliberate act, that none might think that the new magistrates were precluded from inaugurating the dungeon as they did the temples and the altars.
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