at ille, oblato beneficio quo nullum maius lugenti tribui poterat, dolorem moderationi cedere coegit, carnificesque sanguinis sui intactos e vestigio ad Cleopatram reduci iussit, dicendo potestatem huius vindictae non suam sed senatus esse debere.
No greater favour could have been extended to a mourner. But when offered it, he made grief yield to moderation and had the slaughterers of his flesh and blood returned to Cleopatra immediately unharmed, saying that the power to punish them should be the senates, not his.
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