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for which corn
all the money was not paid. This is a grave charge against Verres; a grave one if I
plead the cause, but, if you are the prosecutor, no charge at all. For you were the
quaestor, you had the handling of the public money; and, even if the praetor desired it
ever so much, yet it was to a great extent in your power to prevent anything being taken
from it. Of this crime, therefore, if you are the prosecutor, no mention will be made.
And so during the whole trial nothing will be said of his most enormous and most
notorious thefts and injuries. Believe me, O Caecilius, he who is connected with the
criminal in a partnership of iniquity, cannot really defend his associates while
accusing him.
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