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Orellius says, "perhaps it means some sort of trade, for I doubt its having been a Roman proper name." Nizollius says, "Samarius exul proverbium." Many editors propose to read "offen lerint" which Orellius thinks would hardly be Latin. On the other hand, Cicero replies, Nothing is so open to them now as to do what their duty to the republic requires.
See, in Madox, the case in Bishop of Bathes Court See also Brady, 272, where the witnesses on one side offer to swear, or join battle with the other. Parentibus occisi fiat emendatio, vel guerra eorum portetur; unde Anglicè proverbium habetur, Bige spere of side, oththe bær; id est, Eme lanceam a latere, aut fer. Leges Ed. 12. The fines on the town or hundred.
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