Kitap 19
12.15
In fact, the matter was handled exactly as if many men had importuned Claros,A city of Ionia near Colophon, the seat of a famous oracle of Apollo. the oaks of Dodona,A city of Epirus, in the country of the Molossians, where there was in an oak grove a celebrated temple and oracle of Zeus. and the once famous oracles of Delphi with regard to the death of the emperor.
12.16
Therefore the palace band of courtiers, ingeniously fabricating shameful devices of flattery, declared that he would be immune to ordinary ills, loudly exclaiming that his destiny had appeared at all times powerful and effective in destroying those who made attempts against him.
12.17
And that into such doings strict investigation was made no man of good sense will find fault. For we do not deny that the safety of a lawful prince, the protector and defender of good men, on whom depends the safety of others, ought to be safeguarded by the united diligence of all men; and in order to uphold him the more strongly when his violated majesty is defended, the Cornelian lawsOn the Cornelian Laws (Lex Cornelia maiestatis), see Cicero in Pisonem, 21. They were emended and enlarged by Julius Caesar as the Lex Iuliua maiestatis. exempted no one of whatever estate from examination by torture, even with the shedding of blood.See Cod. Theod. ix., Tit. 35, in maiestatis crimine omnibus aequa est condicio.
