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Tanno and Galen could indicate their grief and sympathy only by looks and gestures, for they dared not attempt to approach me. Then Ravillanus called: "Where is that barber?" The apparitor who had gone off before the trial began produced a barber. "Trim his hair and beard!" Ravillanus ordered.
"Believing that a shocking miscarriage of justice has taken place concerning an atrocious crime, the Prefect or the Prince has ordered you rearrested and retried, tomorrow, this time before Cassius Ravillanus." I shuddered, not metaphorically, but actually. I felt cold all over, as if plunged into an icy mountain stream.
I then directed Cassius Ravillanus to deal with you, for I trusted him. "When, in the arena of the Colosseum, I saw the savage, ravening beasts not only spare you but fawn on you, I felt sure that you had been falsely convicted, that you were innocent and that the gods had intervened to save you.
No man could better have exposed the absurdity of the whole flimsy and preposterous fabrication that I had had two confederates, who had, in my interest and at my suggestion, robbed first the triclinium and then the gem-collection, after which last I had myself murdered Falco. But his logic, his lucidity and his eloquence fell on deaf ears. Ravillanus was unmoved.
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