Tully's axiom, ferre ea molestissime homines non debent, quae ipsorum culpa contracta sunt, self do, self have, as the saying is, they may thank themselves.

Calida intemperies innata, vel a febre contracta.

mala valetudo aucta et contracta est tristitia, ac proptera exhilaratione animi removenda.

Ecquem Recalvum ac silonem senem, statutum, ventriosum, Tortis superciliis, contracta fronte, fraudulentum, Deorum odium atque hominum, malum, mali vitii probrique plenum, Qui duceret mulierculas duas secum, satis venustas? Pisc.

Such a letter is the best comment we can have on the pernicious system of raising taxes by contracta system which was to be modified, regulated, and eventually reduced to harmless dimensions under the benevolent and scientific government of the early Empire.