Nam si legatus officii terminos, obsequium erga imperatorem exuit eiusdemque morte et luctu meo laetatus est, odero seponamque a domo mea et privatas inimicitias non vi principis ulciscar; sin facinus in cuiuscumque mortalium nece vindicandum detegitur, vos vero et liberos Germanici et nos parentes iustis solaciis adficite.
For (he proceeded) if the case is one of a subordinate who, after ignoring the limits of his commission and the deference owed to his superior, has exulted over that superiors death and my own sorrow, I shall renounce his friendship, banish him from my house, and redress my grievances as a man without invoking my powers as a sovereign. But if murder comes to light'and it would call for vengeance, were the victim the meanest of mankind'then do you see to it that proper requital is made to the children of Germanicus and to us, his parents.
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