Saturday, April 16, 2022

 

Double Standard

Ammianus Marcellinus 30.5.3 (on the Emperor Valentinian; tr. John C. Rolfe):
And indeed it was his way to be severe in punishing common people, but more lenient towards personages of higher rank, even when they deserved a severe rebuke in harsh words.

eo videlicet more, quo erat severus in gregariis corrigendis, remissior erga maiores fortunas vel verbis asperioribus incessendas.
See E.A. Thompson, The Historical Work of Ammianus Marcellinus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1947), p. 105.



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