The action will lie equally against the heirs of the accused, but only during the year succeeding his death.
No one who has been condemned under this law can be either judge, accuser, or witness.
The penalties are exile, banishment to an island, or death, according to the gravity of the offence.
[1165] Dio Cassius, XXXVIII. 8.
[1166] De alternis consiliis rejiciendis. (Cicero, Oration against Vatinius, 11.—Scholiast of Bobbio, pp. 321, 323, edit. Orelli.)
[1167] “The citizens who, not being of your order, cannot, thanks to the Cornelian laws, challenge more than three judges.” (Cicero, Second Prosecution of Verres, II. 31.)
[1168] Suetonius, Cæsar, 28.
[1169] Cicero, Familiar Letters, XIII. 35. “Pompeius Strabo, father of Pompey the Great, re-peopled Comum. Some time after, Scipio established 3,000 inhabitants there; and, finally, Cæsar sent 5,000 colonists, the most distinguished of whom were 500 Greeks.” (Strabo, cxix.)
[1170] Cicero, Letters to Atticus, II. 18.—Dio Cassius, XXVIII. 8.
[1171] Dio Cassius, XXVIII. 8.—Orelli, Index Legum, 178.