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[5] quidam putant captum imperii consuetudine pensitatisque suis et inimicorum uiribus usum occasione rapiendae dominationis, quam aetate prima concupisset. quod existimasse uidebatur et Cicero scribens de Officiis tertio libro semper Caesarem in ore habuisse est in Phoenissis: εἴπερ γὰρ ἀδικεῖν χρή, τυραννίδος πέρι κάλλιστον ἀδίκημα: τὰ δ᾽ ἄλλα εὐσεβεῖν χρεών Euripidis uersus, quos sic ipse conuertit: “nam si uiolandum est ius, regnandi gratia
uiolandum est: aliis rebus pietatem colas.
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