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emptum est ex senatus consulto frumentum
ab Siculis praetore Verre, pro quo frumento pecunia
omnis soluta non est. grave est hoc crimen in
Verrem, grave me agente, te accusante nullum; eras enim
tu quaestor, pecuniam publicam tu tractabas, ex qua,
etiamsi cuperet praetor, tamen ne qua deductio fieret
magna ex parte tua potestas erat. huius quoque igitur
criminis te accusante mentio nulla fiet: silebitur toto iudicio
de maximis et notissimis illius furtis et iniuriis. mihi
crede, Caecili, non potest in accusando socios vere defendere
is qui cum reo criminum societate coniunctus est.
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