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And, therefore, it is to this point that Marcus Lurco also, a most excellent man, and a
great friend of mine, has especially addressed the sting of his evidence. He said, that it was
not becoming for a praetor in his province to claim money from a private individual. Why, I
should like to know, O Lurco, is it not becoming? It is not becoming to force or extort money,
or to receive money contrary to the laws; but you will never convince me that it is not
becoming to claim it, unless you can show that it is not lawful to do so. Is it right to
accept of honorary lieutenancies for the sake of exacting what is one's due, as you yourselves
have done lately, and as many good men have often done, (and I, indeed, find no fault with
such conduct; I see that our allies complain of it;) and, do you think a praetor, if he, being
in his province, does not abandon an inheritance which comes to him, is not only to be blamed
but even to be condemned?
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