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He sought
a fine. According to what law? Because he had not taken the oath to observe the law: a thing
which never yet was brought against any man as a crime: and because Caius Verres, the city
praetor, a very conscientious and careful man, had not the list out of which judges were to be
chosen in the place of those who had been rejected, in that book which was then produced full
of erasures. On all these accounts Caius Junius was condemned, O judges, for these trivial and
unproved reasons, which had no business to have been ever brought before the court at all. And
therefore he was defeated, not on the merits of his case, but by the time.
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