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Verres names one of his slaves, who he said was the manager of his flocks; says that
he has formed a conspiracy, and excited slaves in other households. He had actually
no such slave in his family at all. He orders him to be produced instantly.
Apollonius asserts that he has no slave whatever of that name. Verres orders the man
to be hurried from the tribunal, and to be cast into prison. He began to cry out,
while he was being hurried off, that the, unhappy man that he was, had done nothing;
had committed no offence; that his money was all out at loan, that ready money he
had none. While he kept making these declarations in a very numerous assembly of
people, so that every one could understand that he was treated with this bitter
injustice and violence because he had not given Verres money,—while, I
say, he kept making these statements about his money at the top of his voice, he was
thrown into prison.
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