The Epistles of Pope Fabian 8Of the arraigned.

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III. Of the arraigned. A person arraigned ought to plead his cause before his judge; and an arraigned person may refuse to speak, if he choose so, before one who is not his own proper judge; and indulgence (induciae) should be granted to the arraigned as often as they appeal.