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In the first place, he acted wisely, as he did in many other instances, in
leaving no room for his detractors to say anything against him, in a city so prone to
suspicion and to evil speaking. For I do not suppose that the religion of the Jews, our
enemies, was any obstacle to that most illustrious general, but that he was hindered by his
own modesty. Where then is the guilt? Since you nowhere impute any theft to us, since you
approve of the edict, and confess that it was passed in due form, and did not deny that the
gold was openly sought for and produced the facts of the case themselves show that the
business was executed by the instrumentality of men of the highest character. There was a
hundredweight of gold, more or less openly seized at Apamea, and weighed out in the forum at
the feet of the praetor, by Sextus Caesius, a Roman knight, a most excellent and upright man;
twenty pounds weight or a little more were seized at Laodicea, by Lucius Peducaeus, who is
here in court, one of our judges; some was seized also at Adramyttium, by Cnaeus Domitius, the
lieutenant, and a small quantity at Pergamus.
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