On the Restraint of the First Electors of Saxony in Adopting and Establishing Luther's Doctrine, Volume 2

that he alone, within the memory of men, so far as we have heard, was called by the surname "the Just." b) Thus SUETONIUS in the life of Otho: i) He administered the province as quaestor for ten years with moderation and singular ABSTINENCE. This same lover of propriety indicates the force of the word most especially in Caesar, k) of whom he denies that he practiced ABSTINENCE in his commands and magistracies. Now, to what this virtue pertains, he demonstrates by the contrary vice, by commemorating the robberies and sacrileges of Caesar. From which places, when compared with one another, it is apparent that ABSTINENCE is proper to princes and magistrates, and, to use the words of SCHORUS, it is attributed to those who keep their hands from the property of others, to which RAPACITY is opposed. l)