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That which
you saw. All those pillars which you see whitewashed, had a crane put against them,
were taken down at a very little expense, and put up again of the same stone as
before. And you let this work out for five hundred and sixty thousand sesterces. And among those pillars I say that there are some
which have never been moved at all by your contractor. I say that there are some
which only had the outer coat scraped off, and a fresh coat put on. But, if I had
thought that it cost so much to whitewash pillars, I should certainly never have
stood for the aedileship. Still, in order that something might appear to be really
being done, and that it might not seem to be a mere robbery of a
minor—“If in the course of the work you injure anything, you
must repair it.”
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