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So that he confined himself to the mere statement that, when
Sacerdos was praetor, Sthenius had tampered with the public documents. He had
scarcely said this when Verres gives sentence “that Sthenius seems to have
tampered with the public documents,” and, moreover, this man so devoted to
Venus, added this besides, with no precedent for, no example of, such an addition,
“For that action he should adjudge five hundred thousand sesterces to Venus Erycina out of the property of
Sthenius.” And immediately he began to sell his property; and he would
have sold it, if there had been ever so little delay in paying him the money.
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