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Dolabella was moved; he did
what many blamed, in leaving his army, his province, and the war, and in going into
Asia, into the province of another
magistrate, for the sake of a most worthless man. After he came to Nero, he urged
him to take cognisance of the cause of Philodamus. He came himself to sit on the
bench, and to be the first to deliver his opinion. He had brought with him also his
prefects, and his military tribunes, all of whom Nero invited to take their places
on the bench On that bench also was that most just judge Verres himself. There were
some Romans also, creditors of some of the Greeks, to whom the favour of any
lieutenant, be he ever so infamous, is of the greatest influence in enabling them to
get in their money.
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