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But Sittius was sent by him into further Spain; in order to excite sedition in that
province. In the first place, O judges, Sittius departed, in the consulship of Lucius Julius
and Caius Figulus, some time before this mad business of Catiline's, and before there was any
suspicion of this conspiracy. In the second place, he did not go there for the first time, but
he had already been there several years before, for the same purpose that he went now. And he
went not only with an object but with a necessary object having some important accounts to
settle with the king of Mauritania. But then, after he was gone, as Sulla managed his affairs
as his agent he sold many of the most beautiful farms of Publius Sittius, and by this means
paid his debts; so that the motive which drove the rest to this wickedness, the desire,
namely, of retaining their possessions, did not exist in the case of Sittius, who had
diminished his landed property to pay his debts.
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