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Although that man may
say that he bought these things, as he is accustomed to say, yet, believe me in
this, O judges,—no city in all Asia or in all Greece has
ever sold one statue, one picture, or one decoration of the city, of its own free
will to anybody. Unless, perchance, you suppose that, after strict judicial
decisions had ceased to take place at Rome, the Greeks then began to sell these things, which they not only
did not sell when there were courts of justice open, but which they even used to buy
up; or unless you think that Lucius Crassus, Quintus Scaevola, Caius Claudius, most,
powerful men, whose most splendid aedileships we have seen had no dealings in those
sort of matters with the Greeks, but that those men had such dealings who became
aediles after the destruction of the courts of justice.
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