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What was there that he could injure, when he was only putting back every stone in
its place? “He who takes the contract must give security to bear the man
harmless who has taken the work from the former contractor.” He is joking
when he orders Rabonius to give himself security. “Ready money is to be
paid.” Out of what funds? From his funds who cried out that he would do
for eighty thousand sesterces what you let out at five
hundred and sixty thousand. Out of what funds? out of the funds of a minor, whose
tender age and desolate condition, even if he had no guardians, the praetor himself
ought to protect. But as his guardians did protect him, you took away not only his
paternal fortune, but the property of the guardians also.
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