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For you
certainly will not say (what I wish you would say) that this quantity never came to
Apronius. So I will hold you here, not only by the public covenants and letters, but
also from the private ones of the cultivators, so as to let you understand that you
were not mere diligent in executing robberies, than I have been in detecting them.
Will you be able to bear this? Will any one defend you? Will these men be able to
endure this, if they are inclined to pronounce a sentence favourable to
you,—that Quintus Apronius, at one visit, out of one district, (besides
all the money which was paid him, and which I have mentioned,) should have taken
three hundred thousand modii of wheat, under the name
of a compliment?
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