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Qua re hoc quo minus est credibile, nisi ostenditur, eo magis est, si convincitur, vindicandum. Itaque cum multis ex rebus intellegi potest maiores nostros non modo armis plus quam ceteras nationes verum etiam consilio sapientiaque potuisse, tum ex hac re vel maxime quod in impios singulare supplicium invenerunt. Qua in re quantum prudentia praestiterint eis qui apud ceteros sapientissimi fuisse dicuntur considerate.
Consequently, in the same proportion as it cannot be believed unless it is demonstrated, it must be severely avenged if it is established. Therefore, while there are many facts from which one may understand that our forefathers were more powerful than all other nations not only in war but also in judgment and wisdom, the fact from which one may most clearly understand it is that they devised a singular punishment for parricides*. Look at how much, with regards to this matter, they surpassed in intelligence those who are reputed to have been the wisest among other peoples.
*This word, impios, almost had me banging my head on the walls again; but I decided to go with "parricides" because that's what he's actually talking about here even though impios of course doesn't literally mean that per se. Anyway I could find no better solution.
Qua re hoc quo minus est credibile, nisi ostenditur, eo magis est, si convincitur, vindicandum. Itaque cum multis ex rebus intellegi potest maiores nostros non modo armis plus quam ceteras nationes verum etiam consilio sapientiaque potuisse, tum ex hac re vel maxime quod in impios singulare supplicium invenerunt. Qua in re quantum prudentia praestiterint eis qui apud ceteros sapientissimi fuisse dicuntur considerate.
Consequently, in the same proportion as it cannot be believed unless it is demonstrated, it must be severely avenged if it is established. Therefore, while there are many facts from which one may understand that our forefathers were more powerful than all other nations not only in war but also in judgment and wisdom, the fact from which one may most clearly understand it is that they devised a singular punishment for parricides*. Look at how much, with regards to this matter, they surpassed in intelligence those who are reputed to have been the wisest among other peoples.
*This word, impios, almost had me banging my head on the walls again; but I decided to go with "parricides" because that's what he's actually talking about here even though impios of course doesn't literally mean that per se. Anyway I could find no better solution.