Sed neque Corbulo aemuli patiens, et Paetus, cui satis ad gloriam erat, si proximus haberetur, despiciebat gesta, nihil caedis aut praedae, usurpatas nomine tenus urbium expugnationes dictitans: se tributa ac leges et pro umbra regis Romanum ius victis impositurum.
However, not only was Corbulo impatient of rivals, but Paetus, for whom it might have been glory enough to rank second to such a leader, treated his achievements with high disdain. Bloodshed and booty, he kept repeating, there had been none; to speak of the storming of cities was nothing but a form of words: it remained for himself to impose on the conquered tributes, laws, and Roman jurisdiction in place of a phantom king.
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