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The chief of all those who were called collectors, was Quintus Apronius, that man
whom you see in court, concerning whose extraordinary wickedness you have heard the
complaints of most influential deputations. Look, O judges, at the face and
countenance of the man; and from that obstinacy which he retains now in the most
desperate circumstances, you may imagine and recollect what his arrogance must have
been in Sicily. This Apronius is the man
whom Verres (though he had collected together the most infamous men from all
quarters, and though he had taken with him no small number of men like himself in
worthlessness, licentiousness, and audacity,) still considered most like himself of
any man in the whole province. And so in a very short time they became intimate, not
because of interest, nor of reason, nor of any introduction from mutual friends, but
from the baseness and similarity of their pursuits.
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