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Et ne forte decipiat nos speciosum clementiae
nomen aliquando et in contrarium abducat, videamus,
quid sit clementia qualisque sit et quos fines habeat.
Clementia est temperantia animi in potestate
ulciscendi vel lenitas superioris adversus inferiorem
in constituendis poenis. Plura proponere tutius
est, ne una finitio parum rem comprehendat et, ut
ita dicam, formula excidat ; itaque dici potest et
inclinatio animi ad lenitatem in poena exigenda.
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