The series serves, also, to fill up various parts of his biography which had been sketched only in the Apologia pro Vita Sua.
The Romans seemed to have followed the principle "dolus pro facto accipitur,"[149] at least if the crime attempted was a serious one.
Example: Titus wavers between uncertainties about the existence of a law; he can discover no reasonspro or con, and he knows no principle or presumption to guide himself by in his difficulty.
