The members of this jury were tied by the exact same bind, and had the added pressure of not wanting to piss off their Roman overlords who had refused to make a decision. Basically any decision they made would mean that they had disagreed with a Roman official. Simply not worth the career-limiting hassle for any self-interested local statesman. The members of the Areopagus came up with a genius idea: they postponed the trial. For a hundred years. The poor woman, presumably, returned to Smyrna to try to process the horror of losing her entire family and both her sons in a brutal whirlwind of
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