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Roscius, then, suborned
Cluvius as a false witness. Why did he do it so late? Why did he do so when the second
payment was to be made, not when the first was? for already he had paid fifty thousand
sesterce. Secondly; if Cluvius was, by this time, persuaded to tell lies, why did he say
that a hundred thousand sesterces had been given to Fannius
by Flavius, rather than three hundred thousand; when, according to the mutual agreement,
a half-share of it belonged to Roscius. By this time you see, O Caius Piso, that Roscius
had made his demand for himself alone, and had made no demand for the partnership. When
Saturius perceives that this is proved, he does not dare to resist and struggle against
the truth. He finds another subterfuge of dishonesty and treachery in the same track.
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