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If he is freed
from this unworthy suspicion, he says that he can give up all his property with
equanimity. He begs and entreats you, O Chrysogonus, if he has converted no part of his
father's most ample possessions to his own use; if he has defrauded you in no
particular; if he has given up to you and paid over and weighed out to you all his
possessions with the most scrupulous faith; if he has given up to you the very garment
with which he was clothed, and the ring off his finger; if he has stripped himself bare
of everything, and has excepted nothing—he entreats you, I say, that he may be
allowed to pass his life in innocence and indigence, supported by the assistance of his
friends.
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