non in tabulis sed in vita Q. Metelli argumenta sincere administratae provinciae legenda sibi iudices crediderunt, indignum rati integritatem tanti viri exigua cera et paucis litteris perpendi.
The jury believed they should read the proofs of upright administration of his province in Q. Metellus life, not in his accounts, and thought it unworthy that the integrity of so great a man be assessed on the basis of a little wax and a few letters of the alphabet.
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