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There is a woman, a citizen of Segesta, very rich, and nobly born, by name
Lamia. She, having her house full of
spinning jennies, for three years was making him robes and coverlets, all dyed with
purple; Attalus, a rich man at Netum;
Lyso at Lilybaeum; Critolaus at Enna; at Syracuse Aeschrio, Cleomenes, and Theomnastus; at Elorum Archonides
and Megistus. My voice will fail me before the names of the men whom he employed in
this way will; he himself supplied the purple—his friends supplied only
the work, I dare say; for I have no wish to accuse him in every particular, as if it
were not enough for me, with a view to accuse him, that he should have had so much
to give, that he should have wished to carry away so many things; and, besides all
that, this thing which he admits, namely, that he should have employed the work of
his friends in affairs of this sort.
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