epistula post provinciale mandatum, cuius supra mentio facta, profertur; atque, cum sensim recitaretur, Arvandus necdum interrogatus se dictasse proclamat.
Arvandus, even thus early, with unhappy self-assertion makes a rush and seizes a place almost in the laps of his judges; on the other hand, Ferreolus takes his seat modestly and quietly at the lowest end of the benches with his colleagues standing on either side, thus showing that he remembered that he was a delegate as well as a senator; for which action he was afterwards all the more complimented and honoured. . Meanwhile those of the magnates who had not attended at the beginning arrived; the opponents rose in their places and the delegates set out their case. After the commission from the province the letter which we have mentioned above was produced. It was being slowly read when Arvandus, without waiting to be questioned, cried out that he had dictated it.
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