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There is a man of the name of Diocles, a citizen of
Panormus, surnamed Phimes, an
illustrious man, and of high reputation as an agriculturist, he rented a farm in the
Segestan district, (for there are no traders in that place,) for six thousand
sesterces; after having been assaulted by this slave
of Venus, he settled with him to give him sixteen thousand, six hundred, and
sixty-four sesterces. You may learn this from Verres's
own accounts. [The items entered under the name of Diocles of Panormus are read.] Anneius Brocchus also, a
senator, a man of a reputation, and of a virtue with which you are all acquainted,
was compelled to give money also besides corn to this same Symmachus. Was such a
man, a senator of the Roman people, a subject of profit to a slave of Venus, while
you were praetor?
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