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After it was paid, he was not content with this
iniquity; he gave notice openly from the seat of justice, and from the tribunal,
“That if any one wished to accuse Sthenius in his absence of a capital
charge, he was ready to take the charge.” And immediately he began to
instigate Agathinus, his new relation and host, to apply himself to such a cause,
and to accuse him. But he said loudly, in the hearing of every one, that he would
not do so, and that he was not so far an enemy to Sthenius as to say that he was
implicated in any capital crime. Just at this moment a man of the name of Pacilius,
a needy and worthless man, arrives on a sudden. He says, that he is willing to
accuse the man in his absence if he may. And Verres tells him that he may, that it
is a thing often done, and that he will receive the accusation. So the charge is
made. Verres immediately issues an edict that Sthenius is to appear at Syracuse on the first of December.
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