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Do not, therefore, say that Verres did the same as Sacerdos had done, since he did
not do it on the same occasion, nor when wheat was at a similar price; say rather,
since you have a competent authority to quote, that he did for three years what
Antonius did on his arrival, and with reference to scarcely a month's provisions,
and defend his innocence by the act and authority of Marcus Antonius. For what will
you say of Sextus Peducaeus, a most brave and honest man? What cultivator ever
complained of him? or who did not think that his praetorship was the most impartial
and the most active one that has ever been known up to this time? He governed the
province for two years, when one year wee a year of cheapness, the other a year of
the greatest dearness. Did any cultivator either give him money in the cheap season,
or in the dear season complain of the valuation of his corn? Oh, but provisions were
very abundant that dear season.
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