[1547] Cic. ad Fam. xii. 30, 7 “Illud non nimium probo quod scribis ... te tuis etiam legatis lictores ademisse.”
[1548] Thus Verres quashes either a decision, or the execution of a decision, given by his quaestor (Cic. Div. in Caec. 17, 56 “Lilybaeum Verres venit postea: rem cognoscit: factum improbat: cogit quaestorem suum pecuniam ... adnumerare et reddere”).
[1549] Possibly certain kinds of criminal jurisdiction were guaranteed to cities by the lex provinciae. The Senate of Catina in Sicily tried a slave (Cic. in Verr. iv. 45, 100).
[1550] Cic. in Verr. i. 33, 84 (of an émeute at Lampsacus) “Non te ad senatum causam deferre ... non eos homines, qui populum concitarant, consulum literis evocandos curare oportuit?”
[1551] The council was not, however, legally necessary. Cf. Cic. in Verr. ii. 30, 75 “Reus plorare ... ut cum consilio cognosceret.”
[1552] ib. ii. 29, 70; 30, 75.
[1553] ib. ii. 30, 75 “hominem innocentem de sententia scribae, medici haruspicisque condemnat.”
[1554] For the threat of capital punishment on a Roman citizen see Cic. ad Q. fr. i. 2, 5; for its apparent execution, Diod. xxxvii. 5, 2.
[1555] Cic. in Verr. v. 66, 170 “Facinus est vincire civem Romanum; scelus, verberare: prope parricidium, necare: quid dicam in crucem tollere?” Cf. pro Rab. 5, 17.
[1556] See p. 285.