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... egregio sub principe et nulla necessitate obstricto senatui statuendum...

nulla necessitate obstricto senatui statuendum disseruit: "he offered the opinion that (the punishment) should be determined by the senate bound by no compulsion"; the periphrastic use of the gerund with the dat. of agent modified by a past participle used as an adj. and limited by a phrase in the abl.; the basic meaning of "obstringere," lit. "tie up," is to "bind someone by putting him under an obligation."