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But that you may not wonder how that freedman obtained so much influence with him,
I will tell you briefly what the man is; so that you may both see the worthlessness
of the man who kept such a fellow about him, especially in that employment and
position, and that you may also see the misery of the province. In the seduction of
women, and in all licentiousness and wickedness of that character, I found this
Timarchides wonderfully fitted by nature to be subservient to his infamous lusts,
and unexampled profligacy. In finding out who people were, in calling on them, in
addressing them, in bribing them, in doing anything in matters of that sort, however
cunningly, however audaciously, however shamelessly it might be necessary to go to
work, I heard that this man could contrive admirable schemes for ensuring success.
For, as for Verres himself, he was only a man of a covetousness ever open-mouthed,
and ever threatening, but he had no ingenuity, no resources; so that, in whatever he
did of his own accord, (just as you know was the case with him at Rome,) he seemed to rob openly rather than to
cheat.
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