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Listen now to a no less shamelessly false
accusation in a case where a smaller sum was involved. Sosippus and Epicrates were
brothers of the town of Agyrium; their
father died twenty-two years ago, by whose will, if anything were done wrongly in
any point, there was to be a forfeiture of his property to Venus. In the twentieth
year after his death, though there had been in the interim so many praetors, so many
quaestors, and so many false accusers in the province, the inheritance was claimed
from the brothers in the name of Venus. Verres takes cognisance of the cause; by the
agency of Volcatius he receives money from the two brothers, about four hundred
thousand sesterces. You have heard the evidence of many
people already; the brothers of Agyrium
gained their cause, but on such terms that they left the court stripped and
beggared.
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