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But that my discourse may return to Lilybaeum, from which I have made this digression, there is a man
named Diocles, the son-in-law of Pamphilus, of that Pamphilus from whom the ewer was
taken away, whose surname is Popillius. From this man he took away every article on
his sideboard where his plate was set out. He may say, if he pleases, that he had
bought them. In fact, in this case, by reason of the magnitude of the robbery, an
entry of it, I imagine, has been made in the account-books. He ordered Timarchides
to value the plate. How did he do it? At as low a price as any one ever valued any
thing presented to an actor. Although I have been for some time acting foolishly in
saying as much about your purchases, and in asking whether you bought the things,
and how, and at what price you bought them, when I can settle all that by one word.
Produce me a written list of what plate you acquired in the province of Sicily, from whom, and at what price you bought each
article.
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