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But when this is reported to Philodamus, although he was
ignorant what great misfortune was at that moment being contrived for him and for
his children, still he comes to him,—represents to him that that is not
his office,—that when it was his turn to receive guests, he was accustomed
to receive the praetors and consuls themselves, and not the attendants of
lieutenants. Verres, as he was hurried on by that one desire alone, disregarded all
his demands and allegations, and ordered Rubrius to be introduced by force into the
house of a man who had a right to refuse him admittance.
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