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Docimus had bought the tenths of barley belonging to the same district. This
Docimus is the man who had brought to Verres Tertia, the daughter of Isidorus the
actor, having taken her from a Rhodian flute-player. The influence of this woman
Tertia was greater with him than that of Pippa, or of all the other women, and I had
almost said, was as great in his Sicilian praetorship as that of Chelidon had been
in his city praetorship. There come to Herbita the two rivals of the praetor, not
likely to be troublesome to him, infamous agents of most abandoned women. They begin
to demand, to beg, to threaten; but though they wished it, they were not able to
imitate Apronius. The Sicilians were not so much afraid of Sicilians; still, as they
put forth false accusations in every possible way, the Herbitenses undertake to
appear in court at Syracuse. When they
had arrived there, they are compelled to give to Aeschrio—that is, to
Pippa—as much as had been deducted from the original purchase-money, three
thousand six hundred modii of wheat. He was not willing
to give to the woman who was really the farmer too much profits out of the tenths,
lest in that case she should transfer her attention from her nocturnal gains to the
farming of the tributes.
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