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Updated: May 16, 2025

But amidst an infinite variety of the blackest crimes, none appeared to me more atrocious than that a senator, of praetorian dignity, and invested with the sacred character of a judge, should, even in the very senate itself, lay violent hands upon a member140 of that body, one of consular rank, and who then stood arraigned before him.

the Younger Pliny - The Letters of Pliny the Younger