By Ling Roger
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Even the principles of justice and the interest of society would receive a fatal blow from the impunity of Maximus; and the example of successful usurpation would tend to dissolve the artificial fabric of government, and once more to replunge the empire in the crimes and calamities of the preceding age. But, as the sentiments of gratitude and honour should invariably regulate the conduct of an individual, they may be overbalanced in the mind of a sovereign by the sense of superior duties; and the maxims both of justice and humanity must permit the escape of an atrocious criminal, if an innocent people would be involved in the consequences of his punishment.
CRIME & PUNISHMENT CHAPTER XLV REIGN OF THE YOUNGER JUSTIN · EMBASSY OF THE AVARS · THEIR SETTLEMENT ON THE DANUBE · CONQUEST OF ITALY BY THE LOMBARDS · ADOPTION AND REIGN OF TIDERIUS · OF MAURICE · STATE OF ITALY UNDER THE LOMBARDS AND THE EXARCHS OF RAVENNA · DISTRESS OF ROME · CHARACTER AND PONTIFICATE OF GREGORY THE FIRST · THE SAVIOUR OF ROME CHAPTER XLVI REVOLUTIONS OF PERSIA AFTER THE DEATH OF CHOSROES OR NUSHIRVAN · HIS SON HORMOUZ, A TYRANT, IS DEPOSED · USURPATION OF BAHRAM · FLIGHT AND RESTORATION OF CHOSROES II.
But his fatigues were rewarded by the daily increase of his fame and his congregation; and he enjoyed the pleasure of observing that the greater part of his numerous audience retired from his sermons satisfied with the eloquence of the preacher24 or dissatisfied with the manifold imperfections of their faith and practice. The Catholics of Constantinople were animated with joyful confidence by the baptism and edict of Theodosius; and they impatiently waited the effects of his gracious promise. Their hopes were speedily accomplished; and the emperor, as soon as he had finished the operations of the campaign, made his public entry into the capital at the head of a victorious army.