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The contractors exacted money from the
cities instead of corn. Well! was this never done except in the praetorship of Verres? I
do not say that, but it was done while Caecilius was quaestor. What then will you do?
Will you urge against this man as a charge, what you both could and ought to have
prevented from being done? or will you leave out the whole of it? Verres, then, at his
trial will absolutely never hear at all of those things, which, when he was doing them,
he did not know how he should be able to defend.
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