Itaque anceps quaestio fuit dum infitiatus est facinus; crudeliter torqueri videbatur post confessionem; et iam Philotas amicorum misericordiam meruit.
Thus the issue of the case was doubt ful as long as he denied the crime; that his torture was continued after the confession was considered an act of cruelty; and now Philotas merited the compassion of his friends.
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