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Montesquieu finds in this custom the origin of the duel and of knight-errantry. XI. Apud pertractentur. Are handled, i.e. discussed, among, i.e. by the chiefs, sc. before being referred to the people. Nisi refers not to coeunt, but to certis diebus. Fortuitum, casual, unforeseen; subitum, requiring immediate action. Inchoatur impletur. Ariovistus would not fight before the new moon, Caes.
XI. De minoribus rebus principes consultant; de majoribus omnes: ita tamen, ut ea quoque, quorum penes plebem arbitrium est, apud principes pertractentur. Coeunt, nisi quid fortuitum et subitum inciderit, certis diebus, cum aut inchoatur luna aut impletur: nam agendis rebus hoc auspicatissimum initium credunt. Nec dierum numerum, ut nos, sed noctium computant.
For when the hounds cross this country there are always "wigs on the green" in abundance; and in spite of barbed wire we may still sing with Horace, "Nec fortuitum spernere caespitem Leges sinebant," which, at the risk of offending all classical scholars, I must here translate: "Nor do the laws allow us to despise a chance tumble on the turf." Round Oaksey, too, is a rare galloping ground.
"Omnium ignari, fortuitum iter incipiunt: sed nihil aeque quam inopia aquae fatigabat: jamque haud procul exitio, totis campis procubuerant, cum grex asinorum agrestium e pastu in rupem nemore opacam concessit: secutus Moses, conjectura herbidi soli, largas aquarum venas aperit."
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