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The judges rise to give decisions, when Oppianicus said, as he had at that
time a right to do, that he wished the votes to be given openly; his object being that
Stalenus might know what was to be paid to each judge. There were different kinds of judges, a
few were bribed, but all were unfavorable. As men who are accustomed to receive bribes in the
Campus Martius are usually exceedingly hostile to
those candidates whose money they think is kept back, so the judges of the same sort were then
very indignant against this defendant. The others considered him very guilty, but they waited
for the votes of those who they thought had been bribed, that by seeing their votes they might
judge who it was that they had been bribed by.
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