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Listen to the decree of the
mercenary praetor from his own note-book; and take notice how great his gravity is
in framing a degree, how great his dignity is in pronouncing it. Read the next
memorandum of his decrees. [The decree, extracted from Verres's note-book, is read.]
He says, “what he does this willingly,” and therefore he makes
the entry in his book. What then? suppose you had not used this word
“willingly,” should we, forsooth, have supposed
that you made this profit unwillingly? “And by the advice of the
bench;” you have heard a fair list of the assessors read to you, O judges
Did it seem to you, when you heard their names, that a list of assessors to a
praetor was being read, or a roll of the troop and company of a most infamous
bandit?
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