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Suetonius, Titus, 9.1

nan  Having declared that he would accept the office of pontifex maximus for the purpose of keeping his hands unstained, he was true to his promise; for after that he neither caused nor connived at the death of any man, although he sometimes had no lack of reasons for taking vengeance; but he swore that he would rather be killed than kill. When two men of patrician family were found guilty of aspiring to the throne, he satisfied himself with warning them to abandon their attempt, saying that imperial power was the gift of fate, and promising that if there was anything else they desired, he himself would bestow it.

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christianism	Bricault and Bonnet (2013) 273
cicero	Bricault and Bonnet (2013) 273
divination	Bricault and Bonnet (2013) 273
pontifex maximus	Bricault and Bonnet (2013) 273
priest	Bricault and Bonnet (2013) 273
rome'	Bricault and Bonnet (2013) 273