A. Atilium Calatinum, Soranorum oppidi proditione reum admodum infamem, imminentis damnationis periculo pauca verba Q. Maximi soceri subtraxerunt, quibus adfirmavit si in eo crimine sontem illum ipse comperisset, dirempturum se fuisse adfinitatem: continuo enim populus paene iam exploratam sententiam suam unius iudicio concessit, indignum ratus eius testimonio non credere cui difficillimis rei publicae temporibus bene se exercitus credidisse meminerat.
A. Atilius Calatinus was on trial for the betrayal of the town of Sora (?). He was very badly regarded, but a few words from his father-in-law Q. Maximus rescued him from the peril of imminent conviction. Maximus affirmed that if he himself had found Atilius to be guilty on that charge, he would have broken off their connection. The people at once surrendered their verdict, already almost cut and dried, to the judgment of one individual, thinking it wrong not to trust the testimony of a man to whom it remembered having entrusted its armies with good results at a time of the gravest national crisis.
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