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Therefore, when I ascertained that the letters of the company were removed out of
the way, I made a calculation of the years that that man had been in Sicily; then I inquired (what was exceedingly easy
to discover) who during those years had been the collectors of that
company,—in whose care the records had been. For I was aware that it was
the custom of the collectors who kept the records, when they gave them up to the new
collector, to retain copies of the documents themselves. And therefore I went in the
first place to Lucius Vibius, a Roman knight, a man of the highest consideration,
who, I ascertained, had been collector that very year about which I particularly had
to inquire. I came upon the man unexpectedly when he was thinking of other things. I
investigated what I could, and inquired into everything. I found only two small
books, which had been sent by Lucius Canuleius to the shareholders from the harbour
at Syracuse; in which there was
entered an account of many months, and of things exported in Verres's name without
having paid harbour dues. These I sealed up immediately.
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