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But what friends are they? Alas, the order of senators! wretched,
and unpopular, and detested through the fault and unworthiness of a few! That Alba
Aemilius, sitting at the entrance of the market, should say openly that Verres had
gained his cause,—that he had bought the judges, one for four hundred
thousand sesterces, another for five, the one who who
went cheapest, for three! And when he was answered that that was impossible; that
many witnesses would give evidence, and besides, that I should not desert the
cause,—“Though,” said he, “every one were to
make every possible statement against him, still, unless the matter be brought home
to him so evidently that no answer can be given, we have gained the
cause.”
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