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As they found that or all applications to this man were
ineffectual, all access to him difficult, and almost impossible, being, as he was, a
man with whom neither right, nor equity, nor mercy, nor the arguments of a relation,
nor the wishes of a friend, nor the influence of any one had any weight, they
resolve that the best thing which they could do, as indeed might have occurred to
any one, was to beg Chelidon for her aid, who, while Verres was praetor, was not
only the real judge in all civil law, and in the disputes of all private
individuals, but who was supreme also in this affair of the repairs of the public
buildings.
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