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... matremque occideret; atque illa "occidat" inquit, "dum imperet."

Cf the quote attributed to Caligula: Oderint dum metuant. Let them hate, so long as they fear. From Atreus, quoted in Seneca, Dialogues, Books III–V "De Ira", I, 20, 4.