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Do you permit Apronius to select what judges he chooses
out of your retinue? It is a scandalous thing that you should give one of the
parties a power of selecting judges from that worthless crew, rather than give both
a power of rejecting judges from a respectable class. You do neither of those
things—what then? Is there anything more abominable that can be done? Yes;
for he compels Scandilius to give and pay over that five thousand sesterces to Apronius. What neater thing could be done by a praetor
desirous of a fair reputation,—one who was anxious to repel from himself
all suspicion, and to deliver himself from infamy?
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