He was a bad man, and was soon forgotten, though his children mourn for him as is the custom.
I killed him.

He gave counsel concerning the city when there was war, but his counsel was that of a traitor, and the city was lost.

Now behold, it is written that he who has given counsel about the country or its capital should perish with it when it comes into peril.

He would not die--so I killed him; but not before he had heaped upon me baseness and shame.

So I killed him.
"Yet it is written that when a minister kills his ruler, all who are in office with him shall without mercy kill him who did the deed.