ABSTRACT
Acindynus was then governor, a man who was also of consular rank. When he demanded of a man the payment of a pound of gold to the imperial treasury, acting upon I know not what motive, he did a thing which is very often fraught with danger in those public officials to whom anything and everything is allowed, or rather, is thought by them to be allowed: he threatened with oaths and stormy language to put the man to death if he did not pay the aforesaid gold by a certain date which he had fixed. And so he was kept in harsh confinement and he was unable to rid himself of the debt, the dread day began to draw ominously near.
