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This is, as
I have said, an insufficient, or rather, a profligate defence against an accusation.
But still, even this one, if you were to wish to use it, you cannot use. Volcatius,
the delight of yourself and your friends, forbids you to make mention of the
manager; and Timarchides, the prop of your household, stops the mouth of your
defence; who, as well as Volcatius, had money paid to him from the cities. But now
your clerk, with that golden ring of his, which he procured out of these matters,
will not allow you to avail yourself of that argument. What then remains for you,
except to confess that you sent to Rome
corn which had been bought with the money of the Sicilians? that you appropriated
the public money to your own purposes? O you habit of sinning, what delight you
afford to the wicked and the audacious, when chastisement is afar off, and when
impunity attends you!
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