1All this, judges, is very easy to refute. 1For why had she fixed on public baths, of all places? 1in which I cannot find what hiding-place there could be for men wearing the toga. 1For if they were in the entrance hall of the baths, they would not be hidden; 1but if they wanted to thrust themselves into the inner part, they could not do so conveniently enough in their shoes and clothes, and perhaps they would not be admitted, unless perhaps the powerful lady had become friendly with the bath-keeper through that quarter-penny transaction. 63And indeed I was eagerly waiting to hear who on earth would be named as those good men, the witnesses of this poison caught red-handed; 63for none has been named so far.
63But I do not doubt that they are very weighty men, since first they are intimates of such a woman, and secondly they undertook that assignment of being crammed into the baths, a thing which she would never have obtained, however powerful she may be, except from men of the highest respectability and the fullest dignity. 63But why do I speak of the dignity of these witnesses? 63learn of their courage and their diligence. 63'They hid in the baths.' 63Splendid witnesses! 63'Then they rashly leapt out.' 63Self-controlled men! 63For this is your story: that when Licinius had come, was holding the box in his hand, was trying to hand it over, but had not yet handed it over, then suddenly these splendid nameless witnesses flew out; 63but that Licinius, when he had already stretched out his hand to hand over the box, drew it back and, at that sudden rush of men, took to flight.
63O the great power of truth, which against the cleverness, cunning and ingenuity of men, and against the contrived plots of all, easily defends itself by itself!