Livy 5.6.17 (speech of Appius Claudius; tr. Aubrey de Sélincourt):
Does not Roman
liberty consist in the glorious privilege of snapping our fingers at the
Senate and magistrates, and looking with contempt upon law, tradition,
established ordinance, and military discipline?
ea demum Romae libertas est, non senatum, non magistratus, non leges, non mores maiorum, non instituta
patrum, non disciplinam vereri militiae.
From Eric Thomson:
Aubrey de Sélincourt manages to extract "the glorious privilege of snapping our fingers at" and "look with contempt upon" from only two words in the Latin (non … vereri). Quite a feat. A ratio 1 to 6.