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But when
what is granted by the edict is, in name indeed, a trial, but in reality a collusion
of your attendants, most worthless men, with the collectors, who are your partners,
and besides that, with the judges, do you still dare to mention that trial,
especially when what you say is refuted, not merely by my speech, but by the facts
themselves? when in all the distresses of the cultivators of the soil, and all the
injustice of the collectors, not only has no trial ever taken place according to
that splendid edict, but none has ever been so much as demanded?
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