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You have already heard the evidence of Heraclius
of Centuripa, a most virtuous and noble young man, from whom a hundred thousand
sesterces were claimed by a fraudulent and false
accusation. Verres, by means of penalties and securities 1 exacted, contrived to extort three hundred thousand;
and the sentence which had been given in favour of Heraclius, in the affairs about
which security had been given) he set aside, because a citizen of Centuripa had
acted as judge between two of his fellow-citizens, and he said that he had given a
false decision; he forbade him to appear in the senate, and deprived him by an
interdict of all the privileges of citizens and of access to all public places. If
any one struck him, he announced that he would take no cognisance of the injury;
that if any claim were made on him, he would appoint a judge from his own retinue,
but that he would not allow him an action on any ground whatever.
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1 The compromissum was money deposited by both parties as a security for their obeying the decision of the judge, “though the same term was also employed to express the engagement by which parties agreed to settle their differences by arbitration, without the intervention of the praetor.”—Smith, Dict. Ant. p. 530, v. Judex.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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