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 read your letter again in the Formian Villa, in which you urge me to take vengeance on the accomplices of Cassius. But I intend to spare his children and son-in-law and wife, and I shall write to the Senate not to permit any severer persecution or harsher penalty being inflicted on them. For there is nothing that can commend an emperor to the world more than clemency. It was clemency that made Caesar into a God, that deified Augustus, that honoured your father with the distinctive title of Pius. Finally, if my wishes had been followed in respect to the war, not even Cassius would have been slain. So do not be troubled:

The Gods protect me, to the Gods my loyalty is dear.

I have named our Pompeianus consul for the ensuing year.

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