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Come now, since the one had many and grave reasons for bribing the judges, and the other had
none, let us try to trace the course of the money itself. Cluentius has kept his accounts with
the greatest accuracy; and this system has this in it, that by that means nothing can possibly
be added to or taken from the income without its being known. It is eight years after that
cause occupied men's attention that you are now handling, stirring up, and inquiring into
everything which relates to it, both in his accounts and in the papers of others; and in the
meantime you find no trace of any money of Cluentius's in the whole business. What then? Can
we trace the money of Albius by the scent, or can you guide us, so that we may be able to
enter into his very chamber, and find it there? There are in one place six hundred and forty
thousand sesterces; they are in the possession of one most audacious man; they are in the
possession of a judge. What would you have more?
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