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Updated: July 22, 2025

In the execution of which, however, he would endeavour to set some bounds to his indignation by following that great example of moderation which those excellent women145 had set, who contented themselves with barely informing the senate of the cruelties which Certus committed in order to carry on his infamous adulation; and therefore," he said, "he would move only that, if a punishment due to a crime so notoriously known should be remitted, Certus might at least be branded with some mark of the displeasure of that august assembly."

the Younger Pliny - The Letters of Pliny the Younger