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... quamquam adversus sontes et novissima exempla meritos miseratio oriebatur,...

novissima, &c, ' deserving exemplary punishment of the utmost severity.' So ' exemplum '=' punishment,' in Caes. B. G.\ 31, 12, ' omnia exempla cruciatusque edere ' (cf. ch. 20, 2). Furneaux ad. loc.