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In such a matter, Verres did
not choose to do any thing obscurely, nor to play tricks in the drawing of lots, nor
to take days out of the calendar. He did not choose to do anything in an underhand
manner, or by means of artifice; but in order to take away the fondness and desire
for honours and ambition out of every city, feelings which usually tend to the ruin
of a state, he declared that he should appoint the censors in every city.
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