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When he had made answer that he had done those things gladly, and had greatly
extolled the services of Carpinatius, he charges a friend of his, who at that time
was the chief collector of that company, to take care diligently, and to make sure
that there was nothing in any of the letters of any of the partners which could tell
against his safety and reputation. Accordingly he, having got rid of the main body
of the shareholders, summons the collectors of the tenths, and communicates the
business to them. They resolve and determine that those letters in which any attack
was made on the character of Caius Verres shall be removed, and that care he taken
that that business shall not by any possibility be any injury to Caius Verres.
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