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Annals by Tacitus
Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb
Book XI Chapter 5: Paying lawyers[AD 47]
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Suilius after this plied his accusations without cessation or pity, and his audacity had many rivals. By assuming to himself all the functions of laws and magistrates, the emperor [Note 1] had left exposed everything which invited plunder, and of all articles of public merchandise nothing was more venal than the treachery of advocates. Thus it happened that one Samius, a Roman knight of the first rank who had paid four hundred thousand sesterces to Suilius, stabbed himself in the advocate's house, on ascertaining his collusion with the adversary. Upon this, following the lead of Silius, consul-elect, whose elevation and fall I shall in due course relate, the senators rose in a body, and demanded the enforcement of the Cincian Law, an old enactment, which forbade any one to receive a fee or a gift for pleading a cause.

Note 1: emperor = Claudius

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