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You demand, O Fannius, a sum of money from Roscius. What sum? Is it money which is owed
to you from the partnership? or money which has been promised and assured to you by his
liberality? One demand is important and odious, the other is more trifling and easy to
be got rid of. Is it a sum which is owing from the partnership? What are you saying?
This is neither to be borne lightly nor to be defended carelessly. For if there are any
private actions of the greatest, I may almost say, of capital importance, they are these
three—the actions about trust, about guardianship, and about partnership. For
it is equally perfidious and wicked to break faith, which is the bond of life, and to
defraud one's ward who has come under one's guardianship, and to deceive a partner who
has connected himself with on. in business.
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