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On that point the security was given. I will
show first, that there was no cause why you should require of the praetor power to take
possession of the goods of Publius Quinctius; in the second place, that you could not
have taken possession of them according to the edict; lastly, that you did not take
possession of them. I entreat you, O Caius Aquillius, and you too the assessors, to
preserve carefully in your recollections what I have undertaken. You will more easily
comprehend the whole business if you recollect this; and you will easily recall me by
the expression of your opinion if I attempt to overstep those barriers to which I have
confined myself. I say that there was no reason why he should make the demand; I say
that he could not have taken possession according to the edict; I say that he did not
take possession. When I have proved thee three things, I will sum up the whole.
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