Precante reo brevem moram, dum accusator consulatu abiret, adversatus est Caesar: solitum quippe magistratibus diem privatis dicere: nec infringendum consulis ius, cuius vigiliis niteretur, ne quod res publica detrimentum caperet.
The defendant asked a short adjournment till the prosecutor could lay down his consulate, but the Caesar opposed:'It was quite usual for magistrates to take legal action against private citizens, nor must there be any infraction of the prerogatives of the consul, on whose vigilance it depended that the commonwealth should take no harm.
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