[102]
O you most foolish, most senseless man, when you were making up
your accounts, and when you wanted to shirk out of the charge of having made
extraordinary gains, did you think that you would escape sufficiently from all
suspicion, if when you lent men money you did not enter any sums as given to them,
and put down no such item at all in your account-books, while the Curtii were giving
you credit in their books for all that had been received? What good did it do you
that you had not put down what was paid to them? Did you think you were going to try
your cause by the production of no other account-books than your own?
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