Si causa peccandi in praesens minus suppetebat, nihilo minus insontis sicuti sontis circumvenire, iugulare; scilicet, ne per otium torpescerent manus aut animus, gratuito potius malus atque crudelis erat.
If there was no immediate motive for wrongdoing, he nevertheless defrauded and murdered innocent victims just as though they deserved it. (You see, he preferred to be gratuitously evil and cruel so that the hands and spirits of his associates might not grow dull through lack of activity.)
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