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He
wishes a decision to be come to concerning the accounts and disputes of the partnership.
It is very late. However, better late than never; let us grant it. Oh, says be, I do not
want that now, O Caius Aquillius; and I am not troubling myself about that now: Publius
Quinctius has had the use of my money for so many years; let him use it, I do not ask
anything. What then are you contending for? is it with that object that you have often
announced in many places—that he may no longer be a citizen? that he may not
keep that rank which hitherto he has most honourably preserved? that be may not be
counted among the living? that he may be in peril of his life and all his honours? that
he may have to plead his cause before the plaintiff speaks, and that when he has ended
his speech he may then hear the voice of his accuser? What? What is the object of this?
That you may the quicker arrive at your rights? But if you wished that might be already
done. That you may contend according to a more respectable form of procedure?
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