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Ligur came to Rome; he
did not doubt that, if he himself had seen Verres, he should have been able to move
the man by the justice of his cause and by his own influence. He went to him to his
house; he explains the whole business; he points out to him how long ago it was that
the inheritance had come to him and, as it was easy for an able man to do in a most
just cause, he said many things which might have influenced any one. At last he
began to entreat him not to despise his influence and scorn his authority to such an
extent as to inflict such an injury upon him. The fellow began to accuse Ligur of
being so assiduous and so attentive in a business which was adventitious, and only
belonging to him by way of inheritance. He said that he ought to have a regard for
him also; that he required a great deal himself; that the dogs whom he kept about
him required a great deal. I cannot recount those things to you more plainly than
you have heard Ligur himself relate them in his evidence.
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