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First of all, why the property of a virtuous citizen was sold? Next, why the property
of a man who was neither proscribed, nor slain in the garrisons of the opposite party,
were sold; when the law was made against them alone? Next, why were they sold long after
the day which is appointed by the law? Next, why were they sold for go little! And if he
shall choose, as worthless and wicked freedmen are accustomed to do, to refer all this
to his patrons, he will do himself no good by that For there is no one who does not know
that on account of the immensity of his business, many men did many things of which
Lucius Sulla knew very little.
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