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His enemies began to consider that he too might be easily
turned out of his property by the same praetor as Heraclius had been stripped of his
by; they plan the affair secretly; they suggest it to Verres by his emissaries. The
cause is arranged, so that the people belonging to the palaestra at Bidis are to
claim his inheritance from Epicrates, just as the men of the Syracusan palaestra had
claimed his from Heraclius. You never saw a praetor so devoted to the interests of
the palaestra. But he defended the men of the palaestra in such a way that he
himself came off with his wheels all the better greased. In this instance Verres, as
soon as he foresaw what would happen, ordered eighty thousand sesterces to be paid to one of his friends.
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