Select letters of Pliny the younger Author:Pliny (the Younger.) Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: iudicem, sub Domitiano, Salvii Liberalis accusatoribus adfuisset. Damnatus et in insulam relegatus est. Itaque 3-1 cum Castam accusarem, nihil magis pressi, quam... more » quod accusator eius praevaricationis ermine corruisset. Pressi tamen frustra: accidit enim res contraria et nova, ut, accusatore praevaricationis damnato, rea absolveretur. Quaeris, quid nos, dum haec aguntur ? Indicavimus 35 senatui, ex Norbano didicisse nos publicam causam, rursusque debere ex integro discere, si ille praevari- cator probaretur; atque ita, dum ille peragitur reus, sedimus: postea Norbanus omnibus diebus cognitionis interfuit, eandemque usque ad extremum vel constan- tiam vel audaciam pertulit. Interrogo ipse me, an 3(i aliquid omiserim rursus : et rursus paene omisi. Summo die Salvius Liberalis reliquos legates graviter increpuit, tanquam non omnes, quos mandasset provincia, reos peregissent, atque, ut est vehemens et disertus, in dis- crimen adduxit. Protexi viros optimos, eosdemque gratissimos; mihi certe debere se praedicant, quod ilium turbinem evaserint. Hie erit epistolae finis, re 37 vera finis : literam non addam ; etiamsi adhuc aliquid praeterisse me sensero. Vale. A. XIV. (iv. 9.) [The subject of this letter is the impeachment of Julius Bassus and his defence by Pliny. Bassus is described as a man whom misfortunes had made famous. After long delays, he had been acquitted of charges brought against him in the reign of Vespasian; he was, however, subsequently banished by Domitian, but recalled by Nerva, under whom he became governor of Bithynia. Here his ill-fortune pursued him, and he was charged by the province with various corrupt practices. His accusers, it appears, were determined to press the case against him, and Bassus, fearing the worst, instructed Pliny to conduct the principal p...« less