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And I made this demand, not because I thought
it of any consequence that he should be compelled to answer me these things against
his will, but that the robberies of one, the dishonesty of the other, and the
audacity of both might be made evident to all the world. And so I leave him in the
court, dumb from fear and the consciousness of his crimes, terrified out of his
wits, and almost frightened to death; I take a copy of the accounts in the forum,
with a great crowd of men standing round me; the most eminent men in the assembly
are employed in making the copy; the letters and the erasures are faithfully copied
and imitated, and transferred from the accounts into books.
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