Item Fulvio Flacco causam dicente, Philippus, servus eius, in quo tota quaestio nitebatur, octies tortus nullum omnino verbum quo dominus perstringeretur emisit; et tamen reus damnatus est, cum certius argumentum innocentiae unus octies tortus exhiberet quam octo semel torti praebuissent.
Likewise when Fulvius Flaccus was on trial, his slave Philippus, on whose evidence the whole case depended, was tortured eight times and uttered no word prejudicial to his master. Nevertheless the defendant was found guilty, although one man tortured eight times provided a more reliable proof of innocence than eight men tortured once would have furnished.
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