interiecto deinde tempore e longinquo rure gladio cinctus domum repetens, subito indicta contione sic ut erat in eam processit, ab eoque qui proxime constiterat solutae a se legis suae admonitus, idem inquit ego illam sanciam, ac protinus ferro quod habebat destricto incubuit, cumque liceret culpam vel dissimulare vel errore defendere, poenam tamen repraesentare maluit, ne qua fraus iustitiae fieret.
Some time later he was coming home from a distant place in the country wearing his sword, when an assembly was suddenly announced. He went into it just as he was and was admonished by the person standing next to him that he had broken his own law. And I shall ratify it too, he said, and forthwith drew the weapon he was carrying and fell upon it. He might have concealed his fault or defended it as an error, but he preferred to pay the penalty outright, so that justice should not be compromised.
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