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Such is the beginning. Let us see what follows. Quintus Roscius has cheated Fannius of
50,000 sesterces. On what account? Saturius smiles; a
cunning fellow, as he seems to himself. He says, for the sake of the fifty thousand
sesterces. I see; but yet I ask why he was so exceedingly
desirous of this particular fifty thousand sesterces? For
certainly, O Marcus Perperna and Caius Piso, they would not have been of such
consequence to either of you, as to make you cheat your partner. I ask, then, why they
were of such consequence to Roscius! Was he in want of money? No, he was even a rich
man. Was he in debt? On the contrary, he was living within his income. Was he
avaricious? far from it; even before he was a rich man he was always most liberal and
munificent.
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