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And, since I have spoken of that money which the censors paid to you for your
statue, it seems to me that I ought not to pass over that method of raising money,
which you exacted from the cities on presence of erecting statues. For I see that
the sum total of that money is very large, amounting to a hundred and twenty
thousand sesterces. This much is proved by the evidence
and letters of the cities. And he admits that, and indeed he cannot say otherwise.
What sort of conduct then are we to think that which he denies, when these actions
which he confesses are so infamous? For what do you wish to be believed? That all
that money was spent in statues?—Suppose it was. Still this is by no means
to be endured, that the allies should be robbed of so much money, in order that
statues of a most infamous robber may be placed in every alley, where it appears
scarcely possible to pass in safety.
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