Like Scaevola and Brutus, he, no doubt, imagined the crime would hand down his name to posterity.

In youth, all of us have erred in judgment more or less.

Sulhn thought the Emperor ought to be slain.

Unfortunately for him, the Duke of Rovigo, the then minister of police, entertained a different opinion.

He thought, in point of fact, that the Emperor ought not to be killed: hence it was that the young Saxon found himself in chains, and that the Duke went to ask the Emperor what he should do with him.