<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text xml:lang="eng"><body><div type="translation" xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0474.phi003.perseus-eng2"><div type="textpart" subtype="section" n="25" resp="perseus"><p>And as this is the case, I ask why you have not Roscius as your partner before an
            arbitrator? Did you not know the formula? It was most notorious. Were you unwilling to
            adopt severe proceedings? Why so? On account of your ancient intimacy? Why then do you
            injure him now? On account of the integrity of the man? Why then do you accuse him now?
            On account of the magnitude of the crime? Is it so? The man whom you could not
            circumvent before an arbitrator, to whose decision such a matter properly belonged, will
            you seek to convict before a judge, who has no power of arbitrating in it? Either, then,
            bring this charge where it may be discussed, or do not bring it where it may not:
            although the charge is already done away with by your own evidence; for when you
            declined to adopt that formula, you showed that he had committed no fraud against the
            partnership. Oh, he made a covenant. Has he account-books, or not? If he has not, how is
            the covenant shown? If he has, why do you not tell us?</p></div></div></body></text></TEI>