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He, having now got ample room for false
accusation, when he sees that there is any point on which his friends refused to
appear for Epicrates in his absence, declares that he will appoint a trial on that
charge before any other. When all saw plainly that not only that money which had (to
make a presence) been sent from his house, had returned back to it, but that he had
afterwards received much more money, the friends of Epicrates ceased to argue in his
defence. Verres ordered the men of Bidis to take possession of all his property, and
to keep it for themselves. Besides the five hundred thousand sesterces which the inheritance amounted to, his own previous fortune
amounted to fifteen hundred thousand. Was the affair planned out in this way from
the beginning? Was it completed in this way? Is it a very trifling sum of money? Is
Verres such a man as to be likely to have done all this which I have related for
nothing?
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