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He would never have allowed such terms as
those if any other citizen had been the contractor; when he had shut out all the
other contractors by the early day which he had fixed, and also because men did not
choose to put themselves in the power of a man who, if they took the contract,
thought that his plunder was torn from his hands. For why need we discuss the point
where the money went to? He himself has showed us. First of all, when Decimus Brutus
contended eagerly against him, who paid five hundred and sixty thousand sesterces of his own money; and as he could not resist him,
though he had given out the job, and taken securities for its execution, he returned
him a hundred and ten thousand. Now if this had been another man's money, he clearly
could not have done so. In the second place, the money was paid to Cornificius, whom
he cannot deny to have been his secretary. Lastly, the accounts of Rabonius himself
cry out loudly that the plunder was Verres's own. Read “The items of the
accounts of Rabonius.”
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