Upon the right hand shall stand a seat or
large pulpit assigned to the plaintiff or the accuser; and, upon
the left, another for the defendant, each if they please with his
counsel. And the tribunes (being attended upon such occasions
with so many ballotins, secretaries, doorkeepers, and messengers
of the Senate as shall be requisite) one of them shall turn up a
glass of the nature of an hour-glass, but such a one as is to be
of an hour and a half's running; which being turned up, the party
or counsel on the right hand may begin to speak to the people. If
there be papers to be read, or witnesses to be examined, the
officer shall lay the glass sideways till the papers be read and
the witnesses examined, and then turn it up again; and so long as
the glass is running, the party on the right hand has liberty to
speak, and no longer. The party on the right hand having had his
time, the like shall be done in every respect for the party on
the left. And the cause being thus heard, the tribunes shall put
the question to the tribe with a white, a black, and a red box
(or non-sincere), whether guilty or not guilty. And if the
suffrage being taken, the major vote be in the non-sincere, the
cause shall be reheard upon the next juridicial day following,
and put to the question in the same manner.
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