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As Nympho
wished to defend himself in a regular action, he appoints some excellent judges,
that same physician Cornelius, (his real name is Artemidorus, a citizen of Perga,
under which name he had formerly in his own country acted as guide to Verres, and as
prompter in his exploit of plundering the temple of Diana,) and Volusius the
soothsayer, and Valerius the crier. Nympho was condemned before he had fairly got
into court. In what penalty? perhaps you will ask, for there was no fixed sum
mentioned in the edict In the penalty of all the corn which was on his
threshing-floors. So Apronius the collector takes, by a penalty for violating an
edict, and not by any rights connected with his farming the revenue—not
the tenth that was due, not corn that had been removed and concealed, but seven
thousand medimni of wheat—from the allotments
of Nympho.
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