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Does he not keep accounts? Indeed he does most carefully. Does
he not enter small matters in his books? Indeed be does everything. Is this a small and
trifling sum? It is 100,000 sesterces. How is it that such
an extraordinary sum us omitted?—how is it that a hundred thousand sesterces, received and expended, are not down in the books? Oh,
ye immortal gods that there should be any one endued with such audacity, as to dare to
demand a sum which he is afraid to enter in his account-books; not to hesitate to swear
before the court to what, when not on his oath, he scrupled to put on paper; to
endeavour to persuade another of what he is unable to make out to his own satisfaction.
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