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At the very outset news was brought to him that the matter had been agitated in the
senate, (which his father also had written him word of at great length,) that also
in the public assembly Marcus Palicanus, a tribune of the people, had made a
complaint to their of the treatment of Sthenius; lastly, that I myself had pleaded
the cause of Sthenius before this college of the tribunes of the people, as by their
edict no one was allowed to remain in Rome
who had been condemned on a capital 1 charge; and that when I had explained the
business as I have now done to you, and had proved that this had no right to be
considered a condemnation, the tribunes of the people passed this resolution, and
that it was unanimously decreed by them, “That Sthenius did not appear to
be prohibited by their edict from remaining in Rome.”
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1 A “capital charge” at Rome does not necessarily mean one affecting the life of the prisoner, but his status as a free citizen. A charge which involved infamia, disfranchisement, was res capitalis; though as it is impossible to render caput when used in this sense so as to give its accurate meaning, I have been forced occasionally to render it “life.”
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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