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Did you, before you made
the demand to be allowed to take possession of his goods, send any one to take care that
the master should be driven by force off the estate by his own slaves? Choose whichever
you like; the one is incredible; the other abominable; and both are unheard-of before
this time. Do you mean that any one ran over seven hundred miles in two days? Tell me.
Do you deny it? Then you sent some one beforehand. I had rather you did. For if you were
to say that, you would be seen to tell an impudent lie: when you confess this, you admit
that you did a thing which you cannot conceal even by a lies. Will such a design, so
covetous, so audacious, so precipitate, be approved of by Aquillius and by such men as
he is?
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