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Caius Quinctius dies; who, as you say, owed you a
large sum for some particular articles. His heir, Publius Quinctius, comes into
Gaul to you, to your joint
estate—comes to that place where not only the property was, but also all the
accounts and all the books. Who would have been so careless in his private affairs, who
so negligent, who so unlike you, O Sextus, us not, when the effects were gone from his
hands who had contracted the debt, and had become the property of his heir, to inform
the heir of it as soon as he saw him? to apply for the money? to give in his account?
and if anything were disputed, to arrange it either in a friendly manner, or by the
intervention of strict law? Is it not so? that which the best men do, those who wish
their relations and friends to be affectionate towards them and honourable, would Sextus
Naevius not do that, he who so burns, who is so hurried away by avarice, that he is
unwilling to give up any part of his own property, lest he should leave some fraction to
be any credit or advantage to this his near relation.
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