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When the praetor announced so vast a scene of bargaining
and trafficking as that, people came to Syracuse to see him, from all quarters. The whole of the praetor's
house was on fire with the eagerness and cupidity of men; and no wonder, when all
the comitia of so many cities were packed together into one house, and when all the
ambition of an entire province was confined in one chamber. Bribes being openly
asked for, and biddings being openly made, Timarchides appointed two censors for
every city. He, by his own labour, and by his own visits to every one, by all the
trouble which he took in this employment, achieved this, that all the money came to
Verres without his having any anxiety on his part. How much money this Timarchides
made, you cannot as yet know; for a certainty; but in what a variety of manners, and
how shamefully, he plundered people, you heard at the former pleading, by the
evidence of many witnesses.
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