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I see what I have done; he rouses himself up; he hopes that, in
the instance of this charge, some breeze may be wafted this way of good will and
approbation for those men to him the name of Cnaeus Carbo, though dead, is
unwelcome, and to whom he hopes that that desertion and betrayal of his consul will
prove acceptable. As if he had done it from any desire to take the part of the
nobility, or from any party zeal, and had not rather openly pillaged the consul, the
army and the province, and then, because of this most impudent theft, had run away.
For such an action as that is obscure, and such that one may suspect that Caius
Verres, because he could not bear new men, passed over to the nobility, that is, to
his own party, and that he did nothing from consideration of money.
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