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What more? Did you not act in the same manner in the case of Aristodemus of
Apollonia, and in that of
Leon of Megara? What more? Did that unquiet state of the slaves, and that
sudden suspicion of war, inspire you with any additional diligence in guarding the
province, or with a new plan for acquiring most scandalous gain? When at your
instigation the steward of Eumenides of Halicya, a highborn and honourable man of
great wealth, was accused of some crime, you got sixty thousand sesterces from his master, and he lately explained to us, as a witness
on his oath, how you managed it. From Caius Matrinius, a Roman knight, you took in
his absence, while he was at Rome, a
hundred thousand sesterces, because you said that his
stewards and shepherds had fallen under suspicion. Lucius Flavius, the agent of
Caius Matrinius, who paid you that money, deposed to this fact; Caius Matrinius
himself made the same statement, and that most illustrious man, Cnaeus Lentulus the
censor, who quite recently has both sent letters to you himself, and has procured
others to be sent to you for the purpose of doing honour to Caius Matrinius, will
prove the same thing.
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