Note 635 — CXLVIII (A IV, 17 AND PARTS OF 16)
Evelyn S. (Evelyn Shirley) Shuckburgh translation
M. Æmilius Scaurus was acquitted on the 2nd of September on a charge of extortion in Sardinia. The trial had been hurried on lest he should use the Sardinian money in bribing for the consulship. Hence he could not begin distributing his gifts to the electors till after September 2nd, and his rivals Domitius and Messalla got the start of him. See Asconius, 131 seq.