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Some one will say, “What! do you value those things at a very high
price?” But I am not valuing them according to any calculation of my own,
or any need which I have for them; but I think that the matter ought to be looked at
by you in this light,—what is the value of these things in the opinion of
those men who are judges of these things; at what price they are accustomed to be
sold; at what price these very things could be sold, if they were sold openly and
freely; lastly, at what price Verres himself values them. For he would never have
been so foolish, if he had thought that Cupid worth only four hundred denarii, as to allow himself to be made a subject for the
common conversation and general reproach of men.
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