ἱστορίαι Historiai
Suet. Vesp. 10 The Deified Vespasian, Suetonius; served verbatim
Lawsuit upon lawsuit had accumulated in al} the courts to an excessive degree, since those of long standing were left unsettled though the interruption of court business ° and new ones had arisen through the disorder of the times. He therefore chose commissioners by lot to restore what had been seized in time of war, and to make special decisions in the court of the Hundred,@ reducing the cases to the smallest possible number, since it was clear that the lifetime of the litigants would not suffice for the regular proceedings.

The Greek stands ready in the workroom; the English is served. Both faces will read together.

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The Deified Vespasian, Suetonius — translated by J. C. Rolfe, 1913
Apparatus shelf — Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars (J. C. Rolfe translation; Dover republication) · J. C. Rolfe, 1913 (preface dated Philadelphia, April 1913); Dover Publications republication, 2018
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