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Annals by Tacitus
Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb
Book XIII Chapter 33: Impeachments[AD 57]
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This same year saw many impeached. One of these, Publius Celer, prosecuted by the province of Asia, the emperor [Note 1] could not acquit, and so he put off the case till the man died of old age. Celer, as I have related, had murdered Silanus, the proconsul, and the magnitude of this crime veiled his other enormities. Cossutianus Capito was accused by the people of Cilicia; he was a man stained with the foulest guilt, and had actually imagined that his audacious wickedness had the same rights in a province as he had claimed for it at Rome. But he had to confront a determined prosecution, and at ast abandoned his defence. Eprius Marcellus, from whom Lycia demanded compensation, was so powerfully supported by corrupt influence that some of his accusers were punished with exile, as though they had imperilled an innocent man.

Note 1: emperor = Nero