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As you are on your way to
take possession, O Sextus Naevius, the praetor himself openly says to
you—“Take possession in such manner that Naevius may have possession
at the same time with you; take possession in such a manner that no violence may be
offered to Quinctius.” What? how do you observe that? I say nothing of his not
having been a man who was keeping out of the way, of his being a man who had a house, a
wife, children, and an agent at Rome; I say
nothing of all this: I say this, that the owner was expelled from his farm; that hands
were laid on their master by his own slaves, before his own household gods; I say
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