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quid est hoc? tot1 viri fortes honesti gratiosi, tot Siculi,
tot equites Romani, ab homine nequissimo ac turpissimo
laesi poenam octupli sine ulla dubitatione commissam non
persequebantur? quae causa, quae ratio est? una illa,
iudices, quam videtis, quod ultro etiam inlusos se et inrisos2
ab iudicio discessuros videbant. etenim quod esset iudicium,
cum ex Verris turpissimo flagitiosissimoque comitatu
tres recuperatorum nomine adsedissent adseculae istius,
non a patre ei traditi sed a meretricula commendati?
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