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And this too in truth displeased me;
and yet I was not quite aware what I had so much to fear from this allotment of the
praetor's duties. But I ascertained this one thing from trustworthy men from whom I
received all my intelligence; that many chests full of Sicilian money had been sent
by some senator to a Roman knight, and that of these about ten chests had been left
at that senator's house, with the statement that they were left to be used in the
comitia when I expected to be elected aedile, and that men to distribute this money
among all the tribes had been summoned to attend him by night.
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