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The copy was examined and compared with the original with the greatest care and
diligence, and then sealed up by most honourable men. If Carpinatius would not
answer me then, do you, O Verres, answer me now, who you imagine this Verrutius, who
must almost be one of your own family, to be. It is quite impossible that you should
not have known a man in your own province, who, I see, was in Sicily while you were praetor, and who, I perceive
from the accounts themselves, was a very wealthy man. And now, that this may not be
longer in obscurity, advance into the middle, 1 open the volume, the copy of the accounts, so that every one may be
able to see now, not the traces only of that man's avarice, but the very bed in
which it lay.
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