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As at this time there was no mention of a proscription, and as even those who had been
afraid of it before, were returning and thinking themselves now delivered from their
dangers, the name of Sextus Roscius, a man most zealous for the nobility, is proscribed
and his goods sold; Chrysogonus is the purchaser; three of his finest farms, are given
to Capito for his own, and he possesses them to this day; all the rest of his property
that fellow Titus Roscius seizes in the name of Chrysogonus, as he says himself. This
property, worth six millions of sesterces, is bought for
two thousand. I well know, O judges, that all this was done without the knowledge of
Lucius Sulla;
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