so that also, which has been
 used to be an assistance to me in other causes, is wanting to me in this one; for in
 proportion to my want of ability, have I endeavoured to make amends for that want by
 industry, and unless time and space be given to one, it cannot be seen how great his
 industry is. But the greater our disadvantages, O Caius Aquillius, are, with so much the
 more favourable a disposition ought you, and those who are your colleagues in this
 trial, to listen to our words, that the truth, though weakened by many disadvantages,
 may be at last reestablished by the equity of such men as you. But if you, being the judge, shall appear to be no protection to a
 desolate and helpless condition against power and influence; if before this tribunal the
 cause is found to depend on interest, not on truth; then indeed there is nothing any
 longer holy and uncontaminated in the state—no hope that the firmness and
 virtue of the judge may counterbalance the lowly condition of any one. But undoubtedly
 before you and your colleagues truth will prevail, or else, if it be driven from this
 place by power and influence, it will not be able to find any place where it can stand.
 I do not say this, O Caius Aquillius, because I have any doubt of your own good faith
 and constancy, or because Publius Quinctius ought not to have the greatest hopes from
 those whom you have called in as your assessors, being, as they are, among the most
 eminent Their names were Lucius Lucilius, Publius Quintilius, and
 Marcus Marcellus; “The judex was generally
 aided by advisers learned in the law, ( jurisconsulti ,)
 who were said in concilio adesse , but the judex alone was empowered to give judgment.” Smith,
 Dict. Ant. v. Judex . men in the state. What then? In the first place, the magnitude of the danger
 causes a man the greatest fear, because he is staking all his fortunes on one trial; and
 while he is thinking of this, the recollection of your power does not occur to his mind
 less frequently than that of your justice; because all men whose lives are in another's
 hand more frequently think of what he, in whose power and under whose dominion they are,
 can do, than of what he ought to do,— 
 Secondly, Publius Quinctius has for his adversary, in name indeed, Sextus Naevius, but
 in reality, the most eloquent, the most gallant, the most accomplished men of our state,
 who are defending Sextus Naevius with one common zeal, and with all their power: if,
 indeed, defending means so to comply with the desire of another, that he may the more
 easily be able to overwhelm whomsoever he chooses by an unjust trial;