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We have heard this for a long time, O judges. I say that there is not one of you
who has not often heard that the collectors of the tenths were that mans partners. I
do not think that anything else has been said against him falsely by those who think
ill of him but this. For they are to be considered partners of a man, with whom the
gains of a business are shared. But I say that the whole of these gains, and the
whole of the fortunes of the cultivators, went to Verres alone. I say that Apronius,
and those slaves of Venus, who were quite a new class of farmers first heard of in
his praetorship! and the other collectors, were only agents of that one man's gains,
and ministers of his plunder. How do you prove that?
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