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Again,
Symmachus, a slave of Venus, is sent as farmer to Segesta, a city exempt from such
taxes; he brings letters from Verres, to order the cultivators to appear in a court
of some other city than their own, contrary to every resolution of the senate, to
all their rights and privileges, and to the Rupilian law. Hear the letters which he
sent to the Segestans. [The letters of Caius Verres are read.] Now learn by one
bargain made with an honourable and respected man, how this slave of Venus insulted
the cultivators of the soil; for there are other instances of this sort.
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