dum dubitant in crimine reperti dilaberentur an starent et superveni (confiteor errorem), supplicia captorum differre non potui, sed supra senis nostri ipsum opertorium torsi latrones, quantum sufficere posset superstitum curae, mortuorum securitati.
Whilst the offenders, thus caught in the act, were hesitating whether to slip away or hold their ground, I arrived on the scene. I could not persuade myself (I confess my indiscretion) to delay the punishment of my prisoners: so these robbers were tortured over the very coffin of our ancestor, severely enough to satisfy the piety of the survivors and to secure peaceful rest to the dead.
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