When, as a result of these meetings, men of the jury, all declared that Pasion was
 guilty of wrong-doing and of scandalous conduct (since, in the first place, it was Pasion
 himself who had spirited away the slave who, so I had asserted, had knowledge of the
 money-dealings, although he accused us of having concealed him, and next, when the slave
 was arrested, had prevented him from giving testimony under torture on the ground that he
 was a freeman, and finally, after this, having surrendered him as a slave and having
 chosen questioners, he nominally gave orders that he be tortured but in point of fact
 forbade it), Pasion, I say, understanding that there was no possibility of escape for
 himself if he came before you, sent a messenger to beg me to meet him in a sanctuary.