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Where, then, is the wisdom of
the judge shown? In this, that he considers not only what he has the power
to do, but also what he ought to do; and he does not recollect only what
power has been committed to him, but also to what extent it has been
committed. You have a tablet given you on which to record your judgment.
According to what law? To the Julian law about extortion and peculation.
Concerning what defendant? Concerning a Roman knight. But that body is not
liable to the operation of that law.
* * * *But now I hear what you say. Postumus, then, is prosecuted under that law, from the operation of which not only he, but his whole order, is released and wholly flee.
* * * *But now I hear what you say. Postumus, then, is prosecuted under that law, from the operation of which not only he, but his whole order, is released and wholly flee.
