Saturday, April 16, 2022
Double Standard
Ammianus Marcellinus 30.5.3 (on the Emperor Valentinian; tr. John C. Rolfe):
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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.See E.A. Thompson, The Historical Work of Ammianus Marcellinus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1947), p. 105.
eo videlicet more, quo erat severus in gregariis corrigendis, remissior erga maiores fortunas vel verbis asperioribus incessendas.
