quippe praeconis vox garrula ministerium est, proconsulis autem tabella sententia est, quae semel lecta neque augeri littera una neque autem minui potest, sed utcumque recitata est, ita provinciae instrumento refertur.
For the heralds wagging tongue is a mere instrument, while a proconsuls document is a decision, and once read may neither be lengthened nor yet shortened by a single letter, but is placed on the provincial record just as it was read out.
final_alignments\Apuleius_Florida.json