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When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
I stew all night in my own grease.
I stew all night in my own grease.
Send them into everlasting Coventry.
Send them into everlasting Coventry.
Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty read more
Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.
'Tis I that call, remember Milo's end,
Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
'Tis I that call, remember Milo's end,
Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.
He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.
See they suffer death,
But in their deaths remember they are men,
Strain not the laws to read more
See they suffer death,
But in their deaths remember they are men,
Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous.
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the
guilt; and also that some men do not read more
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the
guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for
which others are not even indicted.
[Lat., Cavendum est ne major poena quam culpa sit; et ne iisdem
de causis alii plectantur, alii ne appellentur quidem.]
