HKB
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Often appears with: rufinus and calpurnianus · perjury · crime and punishment · counsel and advisers to rulers · conspiracy and assassination · bribery
Usually: argument (1) · skepticism (1)
He explains that he knew the bribery-and-perjury plot already, says Crassus’s evidence was contracted at Rufinus’s house, and then introduces a new charge: a magic seal made for Pudentilla’s letters.
[Footnote 19: *ructus popinam* (Pricaeus).] 60. We all knew of this before it actually took place. I might have prevented the transaction by denouncing it, but I knew that so foolish a lie would be prejudicial to Aemilianus, who wasted his money to secure it, rather than to myself, who treated it with the contempt it deserved. I wished not only that Aemilianus should lose his money, but that Crassus should have his …