On gaining possession of the papers of Sertorius in Spain, among which were letters from many leading men inviting Sertorius to come to Rome with a view to fomenting a revolution and changing the government, he burned them all, thus offering an opportunity for the miscreants to repent and become better men. 1
1 Ibid. chap. xx. (p. 629); similar stories are told of others, as, for example, of William III. of England.