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Why does he order his Alban farm to be sold? Why, besides, does he caress
his mother in this way? Why does he try to overreach the imbecility of his sister and mother
by letters? Lastly, why do we not hear the man's own statement? He is detained, I suppose, in
the province. His mother says he is not. “He would have come,” says the
prosecutor, “if he had been summoned.” You certainly would have compelled
him to come, if you had thought your statement would receive any real confirmation from his
appearing as a witness. But you were unwilling to take the man away from his business. There
was an arduous contest before him; a very severe battle with the Greeks; who, however, as I
think, are defeated and overthrown. For he by himself beat all Asia in the size of his cups,
and in his power of drinking. But still, who was it, O Laelius, who gave you information about
those letters? The women say that they do not know. Who is it then? Did the man himself tell
you that he had written to his sister and mother?
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