You must not pass judgement in any trial without the exercise of reason, nor be as careless when you sit in judgement as you are in your private occupations, but must examine thoroughly each point and search for the truth, mindful of your oaths and of the laws under which you have come together to dispense justice. Isocrates. Antidosis. Speech 15. Section 173.
Image: Roman magistrate from the exhibit Rome: City and Empire at the National Museum of Australia.
Historical note: Roman Judges were chosen from a list called the album iudicum, consisting of senators, and in the later Republic, men of equestrian rank.
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