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But, I imagine, you mean this
to be the chief article of your defence, that you sold all the tenths at a high
price, but the tenths of the Leontine district, which produces the most, for two
hundred and sixteen thousand modii of wheat. If I prove
that you could have sold them for a good deal more, but that you would not knock
them down to those who were bidding against Apronius, and that you adjudged them to
Apronius for much less than you might have adjudged them to others;—if I
prove this, will even Alba, not only your oldest friend, out even your lover, be
able to acquit you?
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