[-51-] He did not, however, wish to hold office alone.  Possessing the glory that lay in such a vote having been passed he was anxious to divert the envy that arose from it.  Also he felt afraid that, as the field was vacant, Caesar might be given him as colleague through the enthusiasm of the powerful classes and the populace alike.  First of all, therefore, in order that his rival might not think he had been entirely neglected and therefore show some just displeasure, he arranged through the tribunes that he should be permitted even in absence to be a candidate for the office, when the proper time came according to law.  Pompey himself then chose as assistant Quintus Scipio, who was his father-in-law and had incurred a charge of bribery.  This man, by birth son of Nasica, had been transferred by the lot of succession to the family of Metellus Pius, and for that reason bore the latter’s name.  He had given his daughter in marriage to Pompey, and now received in turn from him the consulship and immunity from accusation.[-52-] Very many had been examined in the complaint above mentioned, especially because the courts, by Pompey’s laws, were more carefully constituted.  He himself selected the entire list of names from which drawings for jurors had to be made, and he limited the number of advocates on each side, in order that the jurymen might not be confused and disturbed by the numbers of them.  He ordered that the time allotted to the plaintiff be two hours, and to the defendant three.  And what grieved many most of all, he revised the custom of eulogizers being presented by those on trial (for great numbers kept escaping the clutches of the law because commended by persons worthy of confidence); and he had a measure passed that such prisoners should in future be allowed no one whomsoever to eulogize them.  These and other reforms he instituted in all the courts alike; and against those who practiced bribery for office he raised up as accusers those who had formerly been convicted of some such offence, thus offering the latter no small prize.  For if any one secured the conviction of two men on charges equal to that against himself, or even on smaller charges, or if one man on a greater charge, he went scot free.

[-53-] Among many others who were thus convicted was Plautius Hypsaeus, who had been a rival of Milo and of Scipio for the consulship.  Though all three had been guilty of bribery he alone was condemned.  Scipio was indicted, and by two persons at that, but was not tried, on account of Pompey:  and Milo was not charged with this crime (for the murder formed a greater complaint against him), but being brought to trial on the latter charge he was convicted, as he was not able to use any violence.  Pompey kept the city in general well under guard and himself with armed soldiers entered the court.  When some raised an outcry at this, he ordered the soldiers to drive them out of the Forum by striking them with the side, or the flat, of their swords.  When they would not yield, but showed defiance as if the broadsides were being used for mere sport, some of them were wounded and killed.