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I ask these two questions. First of all, on what account Naevius did not complete the
business he had undertaken; that is, why he did not sell the goods which he had taken
possession of in accordance with the edict: Secondly, why out of so many other creditors
no one reinforced his demand; so that you must of necessity confess that neither was any
one of them so rash, and that you yourself were unable to persevere in and accomplish
that which you had most infamously begun. What if you yourself, O Sextus Naevius,
decided that the goods of Publius Quinctius had not been taken possession of according
to the edict? I conceive that your evidence, which in a matter which did not concern
yourself would be very worthless, ought to be of the greatest weight in an affair of
your own when it makes against you. You bought the goods of Sextus Alphenus when Lucius
Sulla, the dictator, sold them. You entered Quinctius in your books as the partner in
the purchase of these goods.1 I say no more. Did you enter into a
voluntary partnership with that man who had cheated in a partnership to which he had
succeeded by inheritance;
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