Adulescebat autem obstinatum eius propositum, admovente stimulos avaritia, et sua et eorum qui tunc in regia versabantur, novos hiatus aperientium, et, siqua humanitatis fuisset mentio rara, hanc appellantium tarditatem:
This persistent purpose of his increased, spurred on as it was both by his own greed and that of persons who frequented the court at that time, and opened the way to fresh desires, and if any mention of mercy was made'which rarely happened'called it slackness.
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