Quare satis mirari non possumus, quod verba vestra plus arrogantiae tumore insipida quam sale sapientiae condita sentimus....

Fuit, fuit quondam in hac Republica virtus.

Quondam dico, atque o utinam tam veracitur quam libenter nunc dicere possemus,' etc.
Strengthened by their contest with Frederick Barbarossa, recognized in their rights as belligerent powers, and left to their own guidance by the Empire, the cities were now free to prosecute their wars upon the remnants of feudalism.

The town, as we have learned to know it, was surrounded by a serried rank of castles, where the nobles held still undisputed authority over serfs of the soil.

Against this cordon of fortresses every city with singular unanimity directed the forces it had formed in the preceding conflicts.