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I asked what the reason was why the goods had not been sold, since they had been taken
possession of according to the edict. Secondly, I asked this also, on what account not
one of so many creditors either did the same thing then, why not one speaks against him
now, but why they are all striving for Publius Quinctius? Especially when in such a
trial the testimonies of creditors are thought exceedingly material. After that, I
employed the testimony of the adversary, who lately entered as his partner the man who,
according to the language of his present claim, 1 he demonstrates was at that time not even in the number of living
men. Then I mentioned that incredible rapidity, or rather audacity of his. I showed that
it was inevitable, either that seven hundred miles had been run over in two days, or
that Sextus Naevius had sent men to take possession many days before he demanded leave
so to seize his goods.
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