Letter 2076: While a well-known case was pending before the Prefect's court, Dyscolius, who had brought the charge of theft,...

Quintus Aurelius SymmachusUnknown|c. 398 AD|Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
imperial politics

Gum in iudicio pmefecturae famosa causa penderet, Dyscolius, qui furti detulerat
actionem multosque nostri ordinis viros criminatione perstrinxerat , occulte cum reis
5 inita pactione non sine disceptatoris inyidia elusit examen. ad huius investigationem
missus apparitor, si praetorianorum adminiculum sortiatur, proclivior ei facultas retra-
hendi accusatoris eveniet. interest igitur publicae disciplinae simulque ad famam
pertinet cognitoris, ut enm summo studio conquisitum reduci in iudicium sub custode
praecipias, ne innocentiam senatorum obnoxia rumoribus suspicio decoloret.

10 LXXVI (LXXV) a. 393.

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