At one stage, the prosecutor said that if Scaurus could produce just 120 people from the whole province that he hadn’t stolen from, he’d let Scaurus go. Scaurus was unable to do so, since he was an unrepentant crook, so it might seem to the reader that he would be found guilty. But only if that reader had not been paying attention to Valerius Maximus’ previous court reporting. Naturally, Scaurus was let off because his family was old and everyone mostly liked his dad.
