Molliter rescriptum, si fraus abesset, posse eum innocentiae fidere, ceterum neque se neque senatum nisi cognita causa ius et iniuriam discreturos: proinde tradito Cotye veniret transferretque invidiam criminis.
A smooth letter came back:'If his conscience was clear, he might trust to his innocence; but neither the emperor nor the senate could discriminate between the rights and wrongs of the case unless they heard it. He had better, then, surrender Cotys, come to Rome, and shift the odium of the charge from his own shoulders.
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