Therefore, when I had demanded a very short time to prosecute my inquiries in
 Sicily , he found a man to ask for two
 days less to make investigations in Achaia ;
 It is not certainly known what Cicero refers to here. 
 not with any real intention of doing the same with his diligence and industry, that
 I have accomplished by my labour, and daily and nightly investigations. For the
 Achaean inquisitor never even arrived at Brundusium . I in fifty days so traveled over the whole of Sicily that I examined into the records and injuries
 of all the tribes and of all private individuals, so that it was easily visible to
 every one, that he had been seeking out a man not really for the purpose of bringing
 the defendant whom he accused to trial, but merely to occupy the time which ought to
 belong to me. Now that most audacious and most senseless man thinks this. He is aware that I am
 come into court so thoroughly prepared and armed, that I shall fix all his thefts
 and crimes not only in your ears, but in the very eyes of all men. He sees that many
 senators are witnesses of his audacity, he sees that many Roman knights are so too,
 and many citizens, and many of the allies besides to whom he has done unmistakable
 injuries. He sees also that very numerous and very important deputations have come
 here at the same time from most friendly cities, armed with the public authority and
 evidence collected by their states. And though this is the case, still he thinks so ill of all virtuous men, to such an
 extent does he believe the decisions of the senators to be corrupt and profligate,
 that he makes a custom of openly boasting that it was not without reason that he was
 greedy of money, since he now finds that there is such protection in money, and that
 he has bought (what was the hardest thing of all) the very time of his trial, in
 order to be able to buy everything else more easily; so that, as he could not by any
 possibility shirk the force of the accusations altogether, he might avoid the most
 violent gusts of the storm. But if he had placed any hope at all, not only in his cause, but in any honourable
 defence, or in the eloquence or in the influence of any one, he would not be so
 eager in collecting and catching at all these things; he would not scorn and despise
 the senatorial body to such a degree, as to procure a man to be selected out of the
 senate at his will to be made a criminal of, who should plead his cause This refers to the same subject as the previous note. 
 before him, while he in the meantime was preparing whatever he had need of. And what the circumstances are on which he founds his hopes, and what hopes he
 builds on them, and what he is fixing his mind on. I see clearly. But how he can
 have the confidence to think that he can effect anything with the present praetor,
 and the present bench of Judges, I cannot conceive. This one thing I know, which the
 Roman people perceived too when he rejected “In any given case
 the litigant parties agreed upon a judex, or accepted him whom the magistrates
 proposed; a party had the power of rejecting a proposed judex, though there must
 have been some limit to this power.” ( Cic. Pro Cluent.
 43. ) Smith, Dict. Ant. v. Judex . What
 the limits to this power were, or under what restrictions it was exercised, we do
 not now know. the judges, that his hopes were of that nature that he placed
 all his expectations of safety in his money; and that if this protection were taken
 from him, he thought nothing would be any help to him. In truth, what genius is there so
 powerful, what faculty of speaking, what eloquence so mighty, as to be in any
 particular able to defend the life of that man, convicted as it is of so many vices
 and crimes, and long since condemned by the inclinations and private sentiments of
 every one?