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What is the use of speaking to me of Bulbus, of Stalenus? 1 What monster of this sort, what prodigy of wickedness have
we ever heard of or seen, who would first sell his decision to the defendant, and
afterwards decide in favour of the accuser? who would get rid of, and dismiss from
the bench honourable men who were acquainted with the cause; would by himself alone
condemn a defendant, who had been acquitted once from whom he had taken money, and
would not restore: him his money?—Shall we have this man on the list of
judges Shall he be named as judge in the second senatorial decury? Shall he be the
Judge of the lives of free men? Shall a judicial tablet be entrusted to him, which
he will mark not only with wax, but with blood too if it be made worth his while?
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1 Bulbus and Stalenus had been judges in the action between Cluentius and Oppianicus, which had been already mentioned, and had been convicted of corruption in that trial.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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