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... emptitasset vendidissetve, perinde poena teneretur ac publico iudicio calumniae...

Imperf. subj. expressing the apodosis of the conditional sentence in o.o. reported by Tacitus in historic sequence, the prodosis being in pluperf. subj.; in o.r. the prodosis would be "tenebitur," so in o.r. the condition is expressed, "qui emptitaverit, perinde poena (abl. of the punishment) tenebitur."