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Therefore I will reserve the
whole of that class of offences, and return to the charge respecting the corn and
the tenths which I had begun to speak of.
While this man was laying waste the largest and most fertile districts by his own
agency, that is to say by Apronius, that second Verres, he had others whom he could
send, like hounds, among the lesser cities, worthless and infamous men, to whom he
compelled the citizens to give either corn or money in the name of their city.
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