Cornelius Tacitus, The Annals
Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb, Ed.

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That same day was fatal also to Pompeius Ælianus, a

SUETONIUS SUPERSEDED; CRIMES IN ROME

young ex-quæstor, suspected of complicity in the villanies of Fabianus. He was outlawed from Italy, and from Spain, where he was born. Valerius Pontius suffered the same degradation for having indicted the defendants before the prætor to save them from being prosecuted in the court of the city-prefect, purposing meanwhile to defeat justice on some legal pretext and subsequently by collusion. A clause was added to the Senate's decree, that whoever bought or sold such a service was to be just as liable to punishment as if he had been publicly convicted of false accusation.