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Then Naevius sends his slaves round to his friends;
he summons himself all his associates from the halls of Licinius and from the jaws of
the shambles, and entreats them to come to the booth of Sextus by the second hour of the
next day. They come in crowds; he makes oath that Publius Quinctius has not appeared to
his bail, and that he has appeared to his. A long protest to this effect is sealed with
the seals of noble men. They depart: Naevius demands of Burrienus the praetor, that by
his edict he may take possession of Quinctius's goods. 1 He urged the confiscation of the property of that man with
whom he had had intimacy, with whom he actually was in partnership, between whom and
himself there was a relationship, which while his children lived could not possibly be
annulled.
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