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Notorious and manifest
facts have been brought forward, and shall be brought forward again. Caius Fannius,
a Roman knight, the brother of Quintus Titinius, one of your judges, has said that
he gave you money. Recite the evidence of Caius Fannius. [Read.] Pray do not believe
Caius Fannius when he says this; do not believe—you I mean, O Quintus
Titinius—do not believe Caius Fannius, your own brother. For he is saying
what is incredible. He is accusing Caius Verres of avarice and audacity; vices which
appear to meet in any one else rather than in him. Quintus Tadius has said something
of the same sort, a most intimate friend of the father of Verres, and not
unconnected with his mother, either in family or in name. He has produced his
account-books, by which he proves that he had given him money. Recite the
particulars of the accounts of Quintus Tadius. [Read.] Recite the evidence of
Quintus Tadius. [Read.] Shall we not believe either the account-books of Quintus
Tadius, or his evidence? What then shall we follow in coming to our decision? What
else is giving all men free licence for every possible sin and crime, if it is not
the disbelieving the evidence of the most honourable men, and the account books of
honest ones?
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