Letter 2076: While a well-known case was pending before the Prefect's court, Dyscolius, who had brought the charge of theft,...
While a notorious case was pending in the court of the prefecture, Dyscolius, who had brought an action for theft and had implicated many men of our order with his accusation, secretly entered into a pact with the defendants and evaded the hearing, not without bringing discredit upon the judge. An officer has been dispatched to investigate this matter; if he obtains the support of the praetorian guards, he will find it easier to bring the accuser back. It is therefore in the interest of public discipline, and also concerns the reputation of the judge, that you order Dyscolius to be sought out with the utmost effort and brought back to court under guard, lest a suspicion liable to rumors tarnish the innocence of the senators.
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Latin / Greek Original
Gum in iudicio pmefecturae famosa causa penderet, Dyscolius, qui furti detulerat
actionem multosque nostri ordinis viros criminatione perstrinxerat , occulte cum reis
5 inita pactione non sine disceptatoris inyidia elusit examen. ad huius investigationem
missus apparitor, si praetorianorum adminiculum sortiatur, proclivior ei facultas retra-
hendi accusatoris eveniet. interest igitur publicae disciplinae simulque ad famam
pertinet cognitoris, ut enm summo studio conquisitum reduci in iudicium sub custode
praecipias, ne innocentiam senatorum obnoxia rumoribus suspicio decoloret.
10 LXXVI (LXXV) a. 393.
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