EDICT OF THE TRIUMVIRS ON EXEMPTION FROM PROSCRIPTION
   
( 43 BC )
 
 
( Johnson, Coleman-Norton & Bourne, Ancient Roman Statutes, Austin, 1961, p. 107, n. 120 ).
 
 
      When Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, who later changed his political allegiance thrice within nine years and became a distinguished patron of learning as well as a littérateur, had fled to Marcus Brutus, the tyrannicide, in Greece, the triumvirs, fearing his capabilities, though he seems to have been only sixteen years of age, published the following exemption to their ordinance regarding proscription.
 
 
ENGLISH TRANSLATION.
 
 
      Since his relatives have denied to us that Messalla was in the city when Gaius Caesar was killed, Messalla shall be removed from those proscribed.