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Then, also, those five judges, who, hunting for the vague rumours of ignorant men, acquitted
him at the time, were unwilling that their clemency should be extravagantly praised; and if
any one asked them whether they had sat as judges on Caius Fabricius, they said that they had,
if they were asked whether he had been accused of any crime except of that poison which was
said to have been endeavoured to be administered to Habitus, they said no; if, after that,
they were asked what their decision had been, they said that they had condemned him. For no
one acquitted him. In the same manner, if any question had been asked about Scamander, they
would certainly have given the same answer, although he was acquitted by one vote; but at that
time no one of those men would have liked that one vote to be called his.
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