Auxitque patrum honorem statuendo ut, qui a privatis iudicibus ad senatum provocavissent, eiusdem pecuniae periculum facerent, cuius si qui imperatorem appellarent; nam antea vacuum id solutumque poena fuerat.
He also added to the dignity of the Fathers by ruling that litigants appealing from civil tribunals to the senate must risk the same deposit as those who invoked the sovereign: previously, appeal had been unrestricted and immune from penalty.
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