Ne in C. quidem Vettieno, qui <sibi> sinistrae manus digitos, ne bello Italico militaret, absciderat, severitas senatus cessavit: publicatis enim bonis eius ipsum aeternis vinculis puniendum censuit, effecitque ut quem honeste spiritum profundere in acie noluerat, turpiter in catenis consumeret.
Nor was the senates severity idle in the case of C. Vettienus, who had cut off two fingers of his left hand to avoid service in the Italian War. It decreed that his property be confiscated and himself punished with chains in perpetuity. By its action he wore out disgracefully in bonds the life which he had not been willing to give honourably in battle.
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