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What was Fidiculanius said to have done? To have
received from Cluentius four hundred sesterces. Of what rank was he? A senator. He was accused
according to that law by which an account is properly demanded of a senator in a prosecution
for peculation, and he was most honourably acquitted. For the cause was pleaded according to
the custom of our ancestors, without violence, without fear, without danger. Everything was
fairly stated, and explained, and proved. The judges were taught that not only could a
defendant be honestly condemned by a man who had not sat as a judge uninterruptedly, but that
if that judge had known nothing else except what previous investigations it was clear had
taken place in the case, he ought to have heard nothing else.
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