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But it is folly to argue about such
manifest shamelessness of that man at any greater length, especially when in the
whole contract he has openly disregarded the language and opinion of every one,
inasmuch as he has added at the bottom of it, “Let him have the old
materials for himself.” As if any old materials were taken from that work,
and as if the whole work were not done with old materials. But still, if the minor
was not allowed to take the contract, it was not necessary for it to come to Verres
himself: some other of the citizens might have undertaken the work. Every one else
was excluded no less openly than the minor. He appointed a day by which the work
must be completed—the first of December. He gives out the contract about
the thirteenth of September: every one is excluded by the shortness of the time.
What happens then? How does Rabonius contrive to have his work done by that day?
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