signum et hoc certum est imminentis adventus, quod catervatim, quo se cumque converterit, vincti trahuntur vincula trahentes; quorum dolore laetatur, pascitur fame, praecipue pulchrum arbitratus ante turpare quam punire damnandos; crinem viris nutrit, mulieribus incidit; e quibus tamen si rara quosdam venia respexerit, hos venalitas solvit, vanitas illos, nullos misericordia.
This, too, is a certain  sign of his imminent arrival that wherever he turns hordes of chained prisoners are dragged along dragging their chains; he delights in their suffering, he feasts his heart on their hunger. He thinks it particularly splendid to disfigure before punishment his victims due for conviction; he makes the men grow their hair long and he cuts short the hair of the women. If on rare occasions any of them should obtain pardon their release is due in some cases to his venality, in others to ostentation, in none to compassion.
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