Philias was duly punished; he was less guilty than he seemed.
But the Roman--who had forced from him the money--he was high on the staff of the proconsul--let his confederate and tool suffer for his own fault.

He kept his peace.

I would not have kept mine; I would not have let the real ruiner of my uncle escape.

But the Roman had me seized, with the aid of his Greek ally; he charged me with treasonable correspondence with the Parthians.

He, through his influence with the proconsul, had me bound to the oar as a galley slave for life.