Inter praecipua enim, quae eorum quisque studio possederat vel ingenio, aut rapax aut feritate contemptior fuit, aut propensior ad laedendum, vel regentibus nimium blandus, aut potentiae fastu superbior; ex omni latere autem ita paratum, neque legisse me neque audisse confiteor, aetatis nostrae testimonio locupleti confisus.
For along with the excellent qualities which anyone of them had acquired by studious endeavour or natural ability he was either extortionate or despicable for his cruelty, or prone to do mischief, or too subservient to the rulers, or insolent through pride of power; but of one so well equipped in every direction I confess I have neither read nor heard, although I have relied on the abundant testimony of our age.
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