Hisque indigna pati querentibus, quod non sit morte multatus, responderat hactenus: Incusent iura clementiam, sed imperatorem mitissimi animi legibus praestare ceteris decet.
and when they complained of the indignity suffered in that he was not punished with death, the emperor merely replied: The laws may censure my clemency, but it is right for an emperor of very merciful disposition to rise above all other laws.
final_alignments\Ammianus_Marcellinus_Book16.json