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I bring the matter before Metellus; I state to him that I have seen the accounts of
the shareholders, that in these there is a long account of one Caius Verrutius made
up of many items, and that I saw, by a computation of the years and months, that
this Verrutius had had no account at all with Carpinatius, either before the arrival
of Caius Verres, or after his departure. I demand that Carpinatius shall give me an
answer who that Verrutius is; whether he is a merchant, or a broker, or an
agriculturist, or a grazier; whether he is in Sicily, or whether he has now left it. All who were in the court
cried out at once that there had never been any one in Sicily of the name of Verrutius. I began to press the man to answer
me who he was, where he was, whence he came; why the servant of the company who made
up the accounts always made a blunder in the name of Verrutius at the same place?
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