With dread, with agitation, she looks forward to the moment. She has not yet a peace within her. Her peace is the stillness of the room in which she is imprisoned. It was as though she had never shown any tendency before to the proscribed religion. The words came to him with the intensity of something new and unimagined hitherto.
Time waits for no man, nor does the court of justice, nor the subsellia of the magistrate.
The examination is to be held in the Basilica at the Forum, and it requires from us a few words of explanation beforehand. Still, preliminary examinations were not unfrequently conducted by the city Duumvirs, or even in what may be called the police courts. And this may have especially been the case in the Proconsulates. Propr tors and Presidents were in the appointment of the Emperor, and joined in their persons the supreme civil and military authority. The Proconsuls, on the other hand, were representatives of the Senate, and had not the military force directly in their hands.