si vero calumniam plectibili sufflammat invidia, in eo iam praecessit vindicta pulsati, quod procax petitor sumptu et itinere confectus temere propositae litis exsudat incommoda, atque hoc in maximo hiemis accentu summisque cumulis nivium crustisque glacierum; quod tempus, quantum ad sectatores litium spectat, breve quidem saepe est audientiae sed diuturnum semper iniuriae.
But if he is stirring up a false charge with culpable enmity, the vengeance of the person he is bothering has already arrived ahead of time; for my man, a shameless plaintiff, worn out with travel and expense, is toiling and sweating through the hardships of a rashly instituted suit'and that in the severest part of winter, amid great piles of snow and cakes of ice, at a season which, as far as litigants are concerned, is often indeed too short for a hearing but is always too long for a grievance.
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