A justice with grave justices shall sit; He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit.

The charge is prepared; the lawyers are met, / The judges all ranged (a terrible show!).

O, let her brother live: Thieves for the robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.

Since twelve honest men have decided the cause, And were judges of fact, tho' not judges of laws.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

I pleaded your cause, Sextus, having agreed to do so for two thousand sesterces. How is it that you have sent me only a thousand? "You said nothing," you tell me; "and this cause was lost through you." You ought to give me so much the more, Sextus, as I had to blush for you.