Ἐδικαιώθησαν

[Meaning] they were judged to be just.¹ But it also means the opposite, they were justly condemned. Dio in the fifteenth [book] of Roman Histories [writes]: "for because of both their very ancient repute and their long-standing friendship with the Romans they did not endure being judged; but the Campanians attempted to accuse Flaccus and the Syracusans Marcellus. They were justified in the Senate."² But often this [writer] uses the expression in the above-mentioned sense, as in the 16th [book]: "all deserve to die; however, I will not put all of you to death, but [only] a few, whom I have captured already, I will condemn, but the others I release."³ And in many other passages likewise.