Letter 2076: While a well-known case was pending before the Prefect's court, Dyscolius, who had brought the charge of theft,...

While a notorious case was pending before the court of the prefecture, Dyscolius, who had brought an action for theft and had implicated many men of our order [the Senate] in his accusation, secretly entered into a compact with the defendants and, not without discredit to the arbiter of the case, evaded the inquiry. The apparitor [officer] sent to track him down, if he is allotted the assistance of the praetorians, will find the means of hauling back the accuser readier to his hand. It is therefore a matter of public order, and it likewise touches the good name of the investigating magistrate, that you should command him to be sought out with the utmost diligence and brought back into court under guard, lest a suspicion liable to rumor should tarnish the innocence of the senators. Letter 76 (75), year 393.

Gum in iudicio pmefecturae famosa causa penderet, Dyscolius, qui furti detulerat actionem multosque nostri ordinis viros criminatione perstrinxerat , occulte cum reis 5 inita pactione non sine disceptatoris inyidia elusit examen. ad huius investigationem missus apparitor, si praetorianorum adminiculum sortiatur, proclivior ei facultas retra- hendi accusatoris eveniet. interest igitur publicae disciplinae simulque ad famam pertinet cognitoris, ut enm summo studio conquisitum reduci in iudicium sub custode praecipias, ne innocentiam senatorum obnoxia rumoribus suspicio decoloret. 10 LXXVI (LXXV) a. 393.