M. quoque Aemilius Scaurus, repetundarum reus, adeo perditam et comploratam defensionem in iudicium attulit ut, cum accusator diceret lege sibi centum atque viginti hominibus denuntiare testimonium licere, seque non recusare quominus absolveretur, si totidem nominasset quibus in provincia nihil abstulisset, tam bona condicione uti non potuerit.
M. Aemilius Scaurus too, on trial for extortion, brought an utterly hopeless defence into court. So much so that when the prosecutor said that under the law he could call one hundred and twenty witnesses and that he would not object to an acquittal if Scaurus named that number of persons in the province from whom he had taken nothing, Scaurus was unable to take advantage of so fair an offer.
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