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If in this
case the business itself, if the scandalous nature of your injustice had no weight
with you;—if the misfortune of this minor, the tears of his relations, the
peril of Decimus Brutus, whose lands were pledged as security for him, and the
authority of Marcus Marcellus his guardian had no influence with you, did you not
even consider this, that your crime would be such that you would neither be able to
deny it, (for you had entered it in your account-books,) nor, if you confessed it,
to make any excuse for it? The contract is knocked down at five hundred and fifty
thousand sesterces, while the guardians kept crying out
that they could do it even to the satisfaction of the most unjust of men, for eighty
thousand. In truth, what was the job?
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