Pari ignominia Valerius Ponticus adficitur, quod reos, ne apud praefectum urbis arguerentur, ad praetorem detulisset, interim specie legum, mox praevaricando ultionem elusurus.
The same humiliation was inflicted on Valerius Ponticus, because, to save the accused from prosecution before the city prefect, he had entered the case for trial by the praetor, with the intention of defeating justice for the moment by a legal subterfuge, and in the long run by collusion.
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