Navabatur enim opera diligens, ut homo rigidus audire cupiens lites, a studio iudicandi revocaretur, metu ne ita ut Iuliani temporibus, defensione innocentiae respirante, frangeretur potentium tumor, assumpta licentia latius solitus evagari.
For diligent efforts were exerted to turn the emperor, as a severe man and eager to hear cases at law, from his desire to act as judge; for fear that as in the times of Julian, if the defence of innocence should revive, the arrogance of powerful men, which under the licence that they had assumed was in the habit of always reaching out farther, might be checked.
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