Iudices numquam consulto mlignos elegit, sed si semel promotos agere didicisset immaniter, Lycurgos invenisse praedicabat et Cassios, columina iustitiae prisca, scribensque hortabatur assidue, ut noxas vel leves acerbius vindicarent.
He never intentionally chose cruel judges, but if he had learned that those whom he had once advanced were acting cruelly, he maintained that he had found men like Lycurgus and Cassius, those ancient pillars of justice; and he often urged them in writing to punish even light offences with all severity.
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