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How, then, were all these things managed? I will go back a
little way, O judges, and I will explain everything which has lain hid in long obscurity, so
that you shall appear almost to see it with your eyes. I entreat you, as you have listened to
me attentively up to this time, so to listen to what is to come. In truth, nothing shall be
said by me which shall not seem to be worthy of this assembly and this silence which is
maintained in the court,—worthy of your attention and of your ears.
For when first Oppianicus began to suspect, from the fact of a prosecution having been
instituted against Scamander, what danger he himself was threatened with, he immediately set
himself to work to become intimate with a man, needy, audacious, a practiced agent in the
corruption of tribunals but at that time himself a judge, Stalenus. And first of all, when
Scamander was the defendant, he made such an impression on him by his gifts, and presents, and
liberality; that he showed himself a more eager assistant than the credit of a judge could
stand.
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