Talia dicente consule designato, consentientibus aliis, parabatur sententia, qua lege repetundarum tenerentur, cum Suillius et ceteri, qui non iudicium, quippe in manifestos, sed poenam statui videbant, circumsistunt Caesarem, ante acta deprecantes.
With the consul designate speaking in this strain and others indicating assent, steps were being taken to draft a resolution making offenders liable under the law of extortion, when Suillius, Cossutianus, and the rest, who saw that to them the vote implied not trial'their guilt was too manifest for that'but punishment, surrounded the emperor, imploring an amnesty for the past.
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