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Which shows what a good thing it is when "publica privatis præcedunt," or, in other words, when public duties take precedence of private affairs.
This trial was, as has been said, a "causa publica," a criminal accusation of such importance as to demand that it should be tried before a full bench of judges. Of these the number would be uncertain, but they were probably above fifty. The Prætor of the day the Prætor to whom by lot had fallen for that year that peculiar duty presided, and the judges all sat round him.
Statim gives emphasis: at the very commencement, etc.; cf. note, 20. Dissociabiles, incompatible. Augeatque Trajanus. This marks the date of the composition early in the reign of Trajan, cf. G. 37; also p. 139 supra. Securitas publica. "And public security has assumed not only hopes and wishes, but has seen those wishes arise to confidence and, stability.
Now it came to pass that the Town Watch having had certain complaints made to them that persons had been bitten in the Vita Publica by rats, doubted of their duty to destroy these ferocious creatures; and they held investigation, summoning the persons bitten and inquiring of them how it was that in so dark a street they could tell that the animals which had bitten them were indeed rats.
Haec vulnera pro libertate publica excepi, hunc oculum pro vobis impendi. Try this cant, pin a cloth over your eyes, look very dismal, and cry, "I was turned out of employment, when the Drapier was rewarded with a Deanery," I say, my lord, if you can once bring matters thus to bear, I have not the least doubt you may escape without censure.
A business man, with a knowledge of men, naive and deep, passionate, full of himself, he identified his business with the business of France, and even with the affairs of humanity. His own interests, the prosperity of his paper, and the salus publica, all seemed to him to be of equal importance and to be narrowly associated.
Such has been their situation; such must be the situation of those who succeed them. I have much respect, and many good wishes, for M. Necker. I am obliged to him for attentions. I thought, when his enemies had driven him from Versailles, that his exile was a subject of most serious congratulation. Sed multæ urbes et publica vota vicerunt.
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