He must rate up, too, all the previous details of the life of this robber.

He must be thoroughly prepared to meet the schemers on every point.

He asked for a hundred and ten days for the purpose of getting up his case, but he took only fifty.

We must imagine that, as he became more thoroughly versed in the intrigues of his adversaries, new lights came upon him.

Were he to use the whole time allotted to him, or even half the time, and then make such an exposition of the criminal as he would delight to do were he to indulge himself with that "perpetua oratio" of which we hear, then the trial would be protracted till the coming of certain public games, during which the courts would not sit.