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And where
are those statues now, O Verres? I mean those which I lately saw in your house
against every pillar, and also in every space between two pillars, and actually
arranged in the grove in the open air? Why were those things left at your house, as
long as you thought that another praetor, with the other judges whom you expected to
have substituted in the room of these, was to sit in judgment upon your? But when
you saw that we preferred suiting the convenience of our own witnesses rather than
your convenience as to time, you left not one statue in your house except two which
were in the middle of it, and which were themselves stolen from Samos. Did you not think that I would summon your
most intimate friends to give evidence of this matter, who had often been at your
house, and ask of them whether they knew that statues were there which were not?
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