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Aulus Atilius and his
son Lucius Atilius stated that there were armed men there, and that they also brought their
slaves armed. They said this also; that when Aebutius was threatening Caecina, Caecina then
and there required of him to let his ejection be accomplished in the regular form. Publius
Rutilius stated the same thing, and he stated it the more willingly, in order to have credit
attached to his evidence in a court of justice. Besides these, two more witnesses gave
evidence, saying nothing about the violence, but speaking only of the original business and of
the purchase of the farm. There was Publius Caesennius, the seller of the farm, a man with a
body of greater weight than his character; and Sextus Clodius, a banker, whose surname is
Phormio, a man no less black and no less presuming than that Phormio in Terence: neither of
these said anything about violence, nor about anything else which had any reference to this
trial.
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