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Nor did he do this
in the case of Anneius alone, but in the instance of every senator, so that the name
of that order had not so much influence in procuring honour as insult for its
members. In the case of Caius Cassius, a most illustrious and most gallant man,
though he was consul at that very time, in the first year of his praetorship, he
behaved with such injustice, that, as his wife, a woman of the highest
respectability, had lands in Leontini, inherited from her father, he ordered all her
crops to be taken away for tenths. You shall have him as a witness in this cause, O
Verres, since you have taken care not to have him as a judge.
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