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Excerpt from Tulli Ciceronis Pro P. Cornelio Sulla: Oratio Ad Iudices
Publius cornelius sulla had been elected consul with Publius Autronius Paetus, for bc. 65, but was impeached for bribery (axmbitus), convicted and deprived of his office. T. Manlius Torquatus (son of one of the unsuccessful candidates, who became a consul on Sulla's deprivation) was then, as now probably in July, the prosecutor. In the trial before us Sulla was impeached under the lea: Plautia dc at on the charge of being implicated in both of the conspiracies of Cataline. Autronius, who was also accused, endeavoured to retain Cicero for his defence, but Cicero refused to appear for him and even gave evidence against him. But from Sulla Cicero had borrowed sesterces, and he wished moreover to lay him and his powerful friends under an obligation. Torquatus in his speech for the prosecution had attacked Cicero himself, and endeavoured to damage him with the court by saying that he had taken upon himself the kingly power of acquitting or condemning according to his own will and calling him the third foreign king that had reigned in Rome, the two former being Numa and Tarquin. This attack seems not to have lessened the friendship between Cicero and Torquatus. Cicero is defending himself almost as much as Sulla. His was the last speech for the defence. Sulla was acquitted.
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