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Of similar good fortune was Nicomedes, who came with him as a deputy, who
was not allowed to enter the senate on any terms, but had been convicted of theft, and of
defrauding his partner. For Lysanias, the chief man of the deputation, obtained the rank of
senator; but as he showed himself rather too much devoted to the riches of the republic, he
was convicted of peculation, and lost his property and his title of senator. These three men
tried to render the accounts of even our own treasury false. For they returned themselves as
having nine slaves, when they had in reality come without one single companion. I see at the
first framing of the decree Lysanias was present, he, whose brother's property was sold by
public order during the praetorship of Flaccus, because he did not pay what he owed to the
people. Besides him there is Philippus, the son-in-law of Lysanias; and Hermobius, whose
brother also, by name Poles, was convicted of embezzling the public money.
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