You now know the cause of the enmity by which Decianus was excited to communicate to Laelius
 this grand accusation against Flaccus. For Laelius framed his complaint in this way, when he was
 speaking of the perfidy of Decianus: “He, who was my original informant; who communicated the
 facts of the case; whom I have followed, he has been bribed by Flaccus, he has deserted and
 abandoned me.” Have you, then, been the prime mover in bringing that man into peril of all his;
 fortunes, whose counselor you had been, with whom you had preserved all the privileges of your
 rank, a most virtuous man, a man born of a most noble family, a man who had done great services
 to the republic? Forsooth, I will defend Decianus, who has become suspected by you through no
 fault of his own. Believe me, he was not bribed; for what was
 there which could have been got by bribing him? Could he have contrived for the trial to last
 longer? Why, the law only allows six hours altogether. How much would Decianus rather have taken
 away from those six hours, if he had wished to serve you. In truth, that is what he himself
 suspects,—you envied the ingenuity of your junior counsel. Because he discharged the part which
 he had undertaken with wit, and examined the witnesses cleverly, What
 follows here in the text is quite unintelligible, and is given up by Orellius as hopelessly
 corrupt; and probably there is some corruption for the next few lines which I have attempted to
 translate. But if this be probable, at all events it is not very
 probable that Decianus was bribed by Flaccus.