justitiam per consilium procerum regni sui tenere .-- Leges Ed.

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[63] The non-observance of a regulation of police was always heavily punished by barbarous nations; a slighter punishment was inflicted upon the commission of crimes.

Among the Saxons moat crimes were punished by fine; wandering from the highway without sounding an horn was death.

So among the Druids,--to enforce exactness in time at their meetings, he that came last after the time appointed was punished with death.
[64] The Druids judged not as magistrates, but as interpreters of the will of Heaven.

"Ceterum neque animadvertere, neque vincire, neque verberare quidem, nisi sacerdotibus permissum; non quasi in poenam, nec ducis jussu, sed velut Deo imperante," says Tacitus, de Mor.