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What! not if
Stalenus was condemned? I do not say at this present moment, O judges, that which I am not
sure ought to be said at all, that he was convicted of treason,—I do not read over
to you the testimonies of most honourable men, which were given against Stalenus by men who
were lieutenants, and prefects, and military tribunes, under Mamercus Aemilius, that most
illustrious man, by whose evidence it was made quite plain that it was chiefly through his
instrumentality, when he was quaestor, that a seditious spirit was stirred up in the army. I
do not even read to you that evidence which was given concerning these six hundred thousand
sesterces, which when he had received on presences connected with the trial of Safinius, he
retained and embezzled as he did afterwards in the case of the trial of Oppianicus.
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