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What do you want, O most excellent man? Have you anything to say?
Listen to me. Take care not to be wanting to yourself; your own interest to a great
extent is at stake. You have done many things wickedly, many things audaciously, many
things scandalously; one thing foolishly, and that of your own accord, not by the advice
of Erucius. There was no need for you to sit there. For no man employs a dumb accuser,
or calls him as a witness, who rises from the accuser's bench. There must be added to
this, that that cupidity of yours should have been a little more kept back and
concealed. Now what is there that any one of you desire to hear, when what you do is
such that you seem to have done them expressly for our advantage against your own
interest?
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