human
To pound false weights and scanty measures break.
gpt
Est Ulubris, animus si non tibi deficit æquus. Another joke at the expense of the plebeian ædiles (cf. iii., 162), who had the charge of inspecting weights and measures, markets and provisions, roads, theatres, etc. These functionaries still exist (as Gifford says),
human
Deal out the law, and curb with high decree The tricks of trade at empty Ulubræ.
gpt
Celsæ graviore casu decidunt turres. So Claudian in Rufin., i., 22,
human
Tolluntur in altum ut lapsu graviore ruant; and Shakspeare,
gpt
Raised up on high to be hurl'd down below.
human
With hideous _ruin_ and combustion down.