And Tamerlane, with a foolish humanity, palliated the fantastic cruelty he exercised upon lepers, when he put all he could hear of to death, to deliver them, as he pretended, from the painful life they lived.
Tamerlanek estaltzen zuen gizatasun ergel batez legendunen aurka ziharduen ohiz landako oinazkoikeria, hilaraziz ezagutzara zetozkion bezain sarri, hain nekagarri zeramaten biziaz arintzeko, zioen.