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Cicero in the pro Cluentio1
says that Publius Popilius and Tiberius Gutta were
not condemned for receiving bribes to give a false
verdict, but for attempting to bribe the jury. What
is his argument in support of this view? That
their accusers, who were themselves found guilty of
bribing the jury, were restored in accordance with
law after winning their case.
1 xxxvi. 98. The lex Iulia de ambitu contained a provision that the penlty (loss of civil rights) incurred by conviction for ambitus should be annulled if the condemned man could secure the conviction of another person for the same offence.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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