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That Stalenus,
two years before, when he had undertaken the cause of the property of Safinius at Atella, had
said that he would bribe the tribunal with six hundred thousand sesterces. But when he had
received this sum from the youth, he embezzled it, and when the trial was over, he did not
restore it either to Safinius or to the purchasers of the property. But when he had spent all
that money, and had nothing left, not only nothing to gratify his desires, but nothing even to
supply his necessities, he made up his mind that he must return to the same system of plunder
and judicial embezzlement. And, therefore, as he saw that Oppianicus was in a desperate way,
and overwhelmed by two previous investigations adverse to him, he raised him up from his
depression with his promises, and bade him not despair of safety.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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