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M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 31 (search)
But if this also be added, that the praetor
assigns the trial to take place according to such a formula, that even Lucius
Octavius Balbus, if he were judge, (a man of the greatest experience in all that
belongs to the law and to the duties of a judge,) could not decide otherwise:
suppose it ran in this way:—“Let Lucius Octavius be the judge;
if it appears that the farm at Capena,
which is in dispute, belongs, according to the law of the Roman people, to Publius
Servilius, that farm must be restored to Quintus Catulus,” will not Lucius
Octavius be bound, as judge, to compel Publius Servilius to restore the farm to
Quintus Catulus, or to condemn him whom he ought not to condemn? The whole
praetorian law was like that; the whole course of judicial proceedings in Sicily was like that for three years, while Verres
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Messapus came, steed-tamer, Neptune's son,
by sword and fire invincible: this day,
though mild his people and unschooled in war,
he calls them to embattled lines, and draws
no lingering sword. Fescennia musters there,
Aequi Falisci, and what clans possess
Soracte's heights, Flavinia's fruitful farms,
Ciminian lake and mountain, and the groves
about Capena. Rank on rank they move,
loud singing of their chieftain's praise: as when
a flock of snowy swans through clouded air
return from feeding, and make tuneful cry
from their long throats, while Asia's rivers hear,
and lone Cayster's startled moorland rings:
for hardly could the listening ear discern
the war-cry of a mail-clad host; the sound
was like shrill-calling birds, when home from sea
their soaring flock moves shoreward like a cloud.