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The people of Herbita
thought the matter was settled, when that man added,—“And what
are you going to give out of the barley to my little friend Docimus? What are your
intentions?” He transacted all this business, O judges, in his chamber,
and in his bed. They said that they had no commission to give anything: “I
do not hear you; pay him fifteen thousand sesterces.” What were the wretched men to do I or how could
they refuse? especially when they saw the traces of the woman who was the collector
fresh in the bed, by which they understood that he had been inflamed to persevere in
his demand. And so one city of our allies and friends was made tributary of two most
debauched women while Verres was praetor. And I now assert that that quantity of
corn and those sums of money were given by the people of Herbita to the collectors
in the name of the city. And yet by all that corn and all that money they could not
deliver their fellow citizens from the injuries of the collectors. For after the
property of the cultivators was destroyed and carried off, bribes were still to be
given to the collectors to induce them to depart at length from their lands and from
their cities.
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