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That punctual and diligent man is ready at the eighth hour. He orders Sthenius to
be summoned; and, when he sees that he does not appear, he begins to burn with
indignation, and to go mad with rage; to despatch 1 officers to his house; to send
horsemen in every direction about his farms and country houses,—and as he
kept waiting there till some certain news could be brought to him, he did not leave
the court till the third hour of the night. The next day he came down again the
first thing in the morning; he calls Agathinus, he bids him make his statement about
the public documents against Sthenius in his absence. It was a cause of such a
character, that, even though he had no adversary in court, and a judge unfriendly to
the defendant, still he could not find anything to say.
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