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iactura

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We can claim the same for the following statements: "so as not to seem moved by the loss, Trimalchio kissed the boy and told him to get on his back" (Trimalchio ne videretur iactura motus, basiavit puerum ac iussit supra dorsum ascendere suum 64,11), "When the two Syrians entered in order to plunder" (cum duo Syrii expilaturi .
The Normans reacted violently 'with various refinements of torture' and finally had recourse to that standby of brutal law everywhere, the punishment of whole neighbourhoods: for the unsolved murders of Frenchmen, they inflicted a particularly punitive version of the long-lasting murdrum fine, its size depending on circumstances but described by one who should know, the Treasurer of the Exchequer, as an 'enormous penalty' enormis iactura.
Nam et iliatam huic genti miserabilem a barbaris cladem, tametsi Grecos in hommes et penas quodamodo dare merentes, non sine gravi tamen nostre religionis iactura et magna Latini nominis indignitate, tam lachrymabilem Christicolum calamitatem existimandam puto .
 
 
 
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