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Therefore, in truth, when a man's goods are taken
possession of according to the praetor's edict, all his fame and reputation is seized at
the same time with his goods. A man about whom placards are posted in the most
frequented places, is not allowed even to perish in silence and obscurity; a man who has
assignees and trustees appointed to pronounce to him on what terms and conditions he is
to be ruined; a man about whom the voice of the crier makes proclamation and proclaims
his price,—he has a most bitter funeral procession while he is alive, if that
may be considered a funeral in which men meet not as friends to do honour to his
obsequies, but purchasers of his goods as executioners, to tear to pieces and divide the
relics of his existence.
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