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What are you waiting for? till poor Malleolus rises from the
shades below, and demands of you an account of your discharge of the duties of a
guardian, of a comrade, of an intimate friend? Fancy that he is present himself, O
most avaricious and most licentious man, restore the property of your comrade to his
son; if not all you have robbed him of, at least that which you have confessed that
you received. Why do you compel the son of your comrade to utter his first words in
the forum with the voice of indignation and complaint? Why do you compel the wife of
your comrade, the mother-in-law of your comrade, in short, the whole family of your
dead comrade, to hear evidence against you? Why do you compel most modest and
admirable women to come against their wont and against their will into so great an
assembly of men? Recite the evidence of them all. [The evidence of the mother and
grandmother is read.]
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