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The city of the Mamertines was not formerly of bad character; it
was even a city hostile to dishonest men, and detained the luggage of Caius Cato,
the one who was consul But then what sort of a man was he? a most eminent and most
influential man; who however, though he had been consul, was convicted. So Caius
Cato, the grandson of two most illustrious men, Lucius Paullus and Marcus Cato, and
the son of the sister of Publius Africanus; who, even when convicted, at a time when
severe judgments were in the habit of being passed, found the damages to which he
was liable only estimated at eighteen thousand sesterces; with this man, I say, the Mamertines were angry, who have
often expended a greater sum than the damages in the action against Cato were laid
at, in one banquet for Timarchides.
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