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But the charge respecting Falcidius is a serious one. He says that he gave fifty talents to
Flaccus. Let us hear the man himself. He is not here. How then does he say it? His mother
produces one letter, and his sister produces a second; and they say that he had written to
them to say that he had given this large sum to Flaccus. Therefore he, whom, if he were to
swear while holding by the altar, no one would believe, is to be allowed to prove whatever he
pleases by a letter without being put on his oath at all! And what a man he is! how unfriendly
to his fellow-citizens; a man who preferred squandering a sufficiently ample patrimony, which
he might have spent among us here, in Grecian banquets!
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