An gravius aestimandum sponte litigatoris praemium honestae operae adsequi quam corrumpere cubicula principum feminarum? Qua sapientia, quibus philosophorum praeceptis intra quadriennium regiae amicitiae ter miliens sestertium paravisset? Romae testamenta et orbos velut indagine eius capi, Italiam et provincias inmenso faenore hauriri: at sibi labore quaesitam et modicam pecuniam esse.
To obtain as the voluntary gift of a litigant some reward for honourable service'was that an offence to be judged more harshly than the pollution of the couch of imperial princesses? By what branch of wisdom, by what rules of philosophy, had he acquired, within four years of royal favour, three hundred million sesterces? In Rome his nets were spread for the childless and their testaments: Italy and the provinces were sucked dry by his limitless usury. But he, Suillius, had his hard-earned and modest competence!
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