Letter 5046: I would say more, if justice needed many prayers to assist it.

Quintus Aurelius SymmachusUnknown|c. 387 AD|Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
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I would say more, if justice needed many prayers to assist it. The official report will lay out the nature of the case; and though it will protect the examiner from error, it can never earn the right to have his judgment accepted by you without a second arbiter.

Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.

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