rogo ergo sis clemens in se severo et deum sequens non habeas te iudice reum se profitente damnabilem; quem si inaudita genera poenarum iubeas inexoratus excipere, non potest amplius per te dolore quam per se pudore torqueri.
I therefore beg you to be lenient with one who is so severe with himself; follow the divine example and do not by your judgment pronounce guilty one who by his own confession has condemned himself. Even if you should be inexorable and order him to undergo unexampled forms of punishment, the pain inflicted by you cannot torture him more than the shame with which he tortures himself.
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