Igitur navium militum armorum paratu strepere provinciae, sed nihil aeque fatigabat quam pecuniarum conquisitio: eos esse belli civilis nervos dictitans Mucianus non ius aut verum in cognitionibus, sed solam magnitudinem opum spectabat.
So then the provinces were filled with din as ships, soldiers, and arms were made ready for their needs; but nothing troubled them so much as the exaction of money. Money, Mucianus kept saying, is the sinews of civil war. And in deciding cases which came before him as judge he had an eye not for justice or truth, but only for the size of the defendants fortunes.
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