ceterum nostro quod sacerdoti nil reservavi, meae causae suaeque personae praescius in commune consului, ne vel haec iusto clementius vindicaretur vel illa iusto severius vindicaret.
But in not reserving any part of the case for our bishops decision, I had in view the claims both of my own cause and of his public character, and I acted in the interest of both: otherwise there might have been shown too much mercy to satisfy the first or too much severity to befit the second.
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