A complaint about bribery in the law — two couplets translating
‘lex est defuncta quia iudicis est manus vncta / Ob cuius vnguentum lex est
in carcere tentum’ which precedes it in John Grimestone’s sermon
notebook
Note: Cf.
Walther (1969)
XWalther, Hans.
Initia carmina ac versuum medii aevi posterioris latinorum.
Göttingen, 1959; 2nd ed. 1969
, no. 10275;
Walther (1963)
XWalther, Hans.
Proverbia sententiaque latinitatis medii aevi.
6 vols. Göttingen, 1963-69
, no.
13695.
Author(s): John Grimestone
Subjects: law; bribery; abuses of the age
Versification: —
two-line —
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