Nam me isdem edictis nescit laedat an laudet: cum idem supplicium minatur optimis civibus quod ego de sceleratissimis ac pessimis sumpserim, laudare videtur, quasi imitari velit; cum autem illam pulcherrimi facti memoriam refricat, tum a sui similibus invidiam aliquam in me commoveri putat.
And in the same edicts he mentions me, without knowing whether he is praising or attacking me: when he threatens most loyal citizens with the punishment that I inflicted on the worst criminals and traitors, he seems to be praising me, as though he wished to imitate me; but when he refurbishes the memory of that glorious act, he thinks that he is stirring up some odium against me on the part of persons like himself.
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