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Since he rested on this point for a while, it is necessary for me also to dwell a
little on it. You say, O Saturius, that Panurgus was the private property of Fannius.
But I say that the whole of him belonged to Roscius, for how much of him belonged to
Fannius? His body. How much to Roscius? His education. His person was of no value; his
skill was valuable. As far as he belonged to Fannius, he was not worth fifty thousand
sesterces; as far as he belonged to Roscius, he was worth
more than a hundred thousand. For no one looked at him because of his person; but people
estimated him by his skill as a comic actor. For those limbs could not earn by
themselves more than twelve sesterces; owing to the
education which was given him by Roscius, he let himself out for not less than a hundred
thousand.
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