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Saturday Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 124, 24 November 1877, Page 13

A Roman Jury. —Cicero, in his treatise on “ Oratory,” explains clearly, for the pleader’s guidance, the nature of the tribunals to which he had to appeal. “ Men are influenced in their verdicts much more by prejudice, or favour, or greed, or gain, or anger, or indignation, or pleasure, or hope, or fear, or by misapprehension, or by some excitement of their feelings, than either by the facts of the case, or by established precedents, or by any rules or principles whatever, either of law or equity.” The remarks of Cicero would apply very forcibly to our Colonial juries.