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Let them venture. We will find, if we are able
to bring that fellow alive before another tribunal, men to whom we can prove that he
in his quaestorship embezzled the public money which was given to Cnaeus Carbo the
consul; men whom we can persuade that he got money under false pretences from the
quaestors of the city, as you have learnt in my former pleadings. There will be some
men, too, who will blame his boldness in having released some of the contractors
from supplying the corn due to the public, when they could make it for his own
interest. There will even, perhaps, be some men who will think that robbery of his
most especially to be punished, when he did not hesitate to carry off out of the
most holy temples and out of the cities of our allies and friends, the monuments of
Marcus Marcellus and of Publius Africanus, which in name indeed belonged to them,
but in reality both belonged and were always considered to belong to the Roman
people.
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