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There is a citizen of Morgentia, named Polemarchus, a virtuous and honourable man.
He, when seven hundred medimni were demanded as the
tenths due on fifty acres, because he refused to pay them, was summoned before the
praetor at his own house; and, as he was still in bed, he was introduced into his
bed-chamber, into which no one else was admitted, except his woman and the
collector. There he was beaten and kicked about till, though he had refused before
to pay seven hundred medimni, he now promised a
thousand. Eubulides Grosphus is a man of Centuripa, a man above all others of his
city, both for virtue and high birth, and also for wealth. They left this man, O
judges, the most honourable man of a most honourable city, not merely only so much
corn, but only so much life as pleased Apronius. For by force, by violence, and by
blows, he was induced to give corn, not as much as he had, but as much as was
demanded of him, which was even more.
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