Nam quid plus tribui potuit consuli quam est datum reo Metello? qui cum causam repetundarum diceret, tabulaeque eius ab accusatore expostulatae ad nomen inspiciendum circa iudices ferrentur, totum consilium ab earum contemplatione oculos avertit, ne de aliqua re quae in iis relata erat videretur dubitasse.
Could more have been vouchsafed to Metellus as a Consul than was accorded him as a defendant? When he was on trial for extortion and his accounts demanded by the prosecutor were being passed around the jury for inspection of an entry, the entire body averted their eyes from looking at them lest they might seem to have had doubts about some matter entered therein.
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