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Four days
after this happened, news of the deed is brought to Chrysogonus to the camp of Lucius
Sulla at Volaterra. The greatness of his fortune is pointed out to him, the excellence
of his farms,—for he left behind him thirteen farms, which nearly all border
on the Tiber—the poverty and desolate condition of his son is mentioned they
point out that, as the father of this, man, Sextus Roscius a man so magnificent and so
popular, was slain without any trouble this man, imprudent and unpolished as he was and
unknown at Rome, might easily be removed. They
promise their assistance for this business; not to detain you longer, O judges, a
conspiracy is formed.
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