human
To none their crime the wished-for pleasure yields: 'Tis the first scourge that angry justice wields.
gpt
Avenging conscience first the sword shall draw, And self-conviction baffle quibbling law.
human
Judices Selecti (a kind of jurymen chosen annually for the purpose), the Prætor Urbanus, who sat as chief judge, chose by lot about fifty to act as his assessors. To each of these were given three tablets: one inscribed with the letter A. for
gpt
one with the letter C. for
human
and the third with the letters N. L. for
gpt
i. e.,
human
After the case had been heard and the judices had consulted together privately, they returned into court, and each judex dropped one of these tablets into an urn provided for the purpose, which was afterward brought to the prætor, who counted the number and gave sentence according to the majority of votes. In all these various steps, there was plenty of opportunity for the
gpt
of a corrupt prætor to influence the
human
One that from casual heaps without design Fortune drew forth, and bade the lot be thine.