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or he may desire to dispel some
charge that is irrelevant to the case as in the passage
of the speech for Rabirius Postumus,1 which runs as
follows: “For when he came to Alexandria, gentlemen, the only means of saving his money which the
king suggested to Postumus was that he should
take charge of the royal household and act as a kind
of steward.” Or the orator may desire to heighten
the effect of his charges, as Cicero2 does in his
description of the journey of Verres.
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