diuturni silenti, patres conscripti, quo eram his temporibus
usus, non timore aliquo, sed partim dolore, partim
verecundia, finem hodiernus dies attulit, idemque initium
quae vellem quaeque sentirem meo pristino more dicendi.
tantam enim mansuetudinem, tam inusitatam1 inauditamque
clementiam, tantum in summa potestate rerum omnium
modum, tam denique incredibilem sapientiam ac paene
divinam tacitus praeterire nullo modo2 possum.
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