[43]
I wish I had not mentioned them. Now he
will boast, and have a fine ride on these horses. “I bought them, I have
paid the money for them.” I have no doubt account books also will be
produced. It is well worth while. Give me then the account-books. You are at liberty
to get rid of this charge respecting Calidius, as long as I can get a sight of these
accounts; still, if you had bought them, what ground had Calidius for complaining at
Rome, that, though he had been living so
many years in Sicily as a trader, you were
the only person who had so despised and so insulted him, as to plunder him in common
with all the rest of the Sicilians? what ground had he for declaring that he would
demand his plate back again from you, if he had sold it to you of his own free will?
Moreover, how could you avoid restoring it to Cnaeus Calidius; especially when he
was such an intimate friend of Lucius Sisenna, your defender, and as you had
restored their property to the other friends of Sisenna?
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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