[1568] Dio Cass. lvi. 40. 4; Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. ii. 326; iii. 359 f.
[1569] P. 243.
[1570] P. 203, n. 2.
[1571] Cic. Rab. Perd.; Dio Cass. xxxvii. 26 ff.; Suet. Caes. 12; Lange, Röm. Alt. ii. 563 f.; iii. 240; Drumann-Gröbe, Gesch. Roms, iii. 150-5; Wirz, in Jahrb. f. Philol. xxv. (1879). 177-201. In the opinion of Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. ii. 298, n. 3; 615, n. 2, following Niebuhr, a tribunician accusation involving a fine was then introduced, and the oration of Cicero was delivered in this second trial. Drumann-Gröbe, ibid.; Greenidge, Leg. Proced. 357 f.; Schneider, Process des Rabirius (Zürich, 1899), and others maintain that Cicero spoke in the trial conducted by the duumviri and that after it was dropped no further accusation was brought. Wirz, ibid., supposes that the senate quashed the process of the duumviri on the ground of illegality, that the accuser (Labienus) then brought a tribunician accusation for perduellio, but intimated a possible finable action in addition, and that the trial was ended, without resumption, by the hauling down of the flag.
[1572] Cic. Leg. Agr. ii. 13. 33: “Orbis terrarum gentiumque omnium datur cognitio sine consilio, poena sine provocatione, animadversio sine auxilio”; p. 435.
[1573] Cic. Har. Resp. 4. 7.
[1574] Anquisitio seems to mean an examination on both sides—including testimony for and against the accused; Fest. ep. 22; Greenidge, Leg. Proced. 345, n. 3.
[1575] Varro, L. L. vi. 91 f.
[1576] Cic. Dom. 17. 45: “Cum tam moderata iudicia populi sint a maioribus constituta ... ne inprodicta die quis accusetur, ut ter ante magistratus accuset intermissa die, quam multam inroget aut iudicet, quarta sit accusatio trinum nundinum prodicta die, quo die iudicium sit futurum, tum multa etiam ad placandum atque ad misericordiam reis concessa sint, deinde exorabilis populus, facilis suffragatio pro salute, denique etiam, si qua res ilium diem aut auspiciis aut excusatione sustulit, tota causa iudiciumque sublatum sit.”
[1577] The trinum nundinum, which included three market days (Macrob. Sat. i. 16. 34), could not have contained less than seventeen days or more than twenty-four.