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Though it was plain that he had received two million, five
hundred thousand sesterces, when he returned to
Rome, he rendered no account to his
ward, none to his ward's mother, none to his fellow-guardians; though he had the
servants of his ward, who were workmen, at home, and beautiful and accomplished
slaves about him, he said that they were his own,—that he had bought them.
When the mother and grandmother of the boy repeatedly asked him if he would neither
restore the mosey nor render an account, at least to say how much money of
Malleolus's he had received, being wearied with their importunities, at last he
said, a million of sesterces. Then on the last line of
his accounts, he put in a name at the bottom by a most shameless erasure; he put
down that he had paid to Chrysogonus, a slave, six hundred thousand sesterces which he had received for his ward Malleolus. How
out of a million they became six hundred thousand; how the six hundred thousand
tallied so exactly with other accounts,—that of the money belonging to
Cnaeus Carbo there was also a remainder of six hundred thousand sesterces; and how it was that they were put down as paid to
Chrysogonus; why that name occurred on the bottom line of the page, and after an
erasure, you will judge.
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