The Wise and Ingenious Companion, French and English; / or, A Collection of the Wit of the Illustrious Persons, Both Ancient and Modern

by Abel Boyer

87

Pompey having found several important Letters from Rome among Sertorius’s Papers, he burnt them all unperus’d; I ought, said he, to give an opportunity of Repenting, to those who have failed by disobliging me.

87

Comme entre les Papiers de Sertorius, Pompée eût trouvé plusieurs Lettres considerables de Rome, il les brula toutes sans les vouloir lire; il faut, dit-il, donner moyen de se repentir, à ceux qui ont failli en me desobligeant.