Sit Cretan Minos, Rhadamanthus too,
And Aeacus. Each for his sins of earth735
Must suffer here; the crime returns to him
Who did it, and the guilty soul is crushed
By its own precedents. There, deep immured
In prison, bloody leaders have I seen,
And bleeding backs of heartless tyrants, scourged
By base plebeian hands. Who mildly reigns,
And, though the lord of life, restrains his hands;740
Who mercifully rules a bloodless realm,