M. Lutatio Pinthiae, splendido equiti Romano, iudex addictus de sponsione, quam is cum adversario, quod vir bonus esset, fecerat, numquam id iudicium pronuntiatione sua finire voluit, ne aut probatum virum, si contra eum iudicasset, fama spoliaret, aut iuraret bonum esse, cum ea res innumerabilibus laudibus contineatur.
He was assigned as judge to M. Lutatius Pinthia, a distinguished Roman knight, concerning a wager he had made with his opponent that he was a good man. Fimbria chose never to end that trial with a pronouncement on his part. He did not wish to rob a respected personage of reputation by finding against him nor yet to swear that he was a good man, that being something dependent on countless virtues.
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