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That alternative remains which he did not cease asserting loudly;
“that Flaccus ought not, when he was praetor, to have attended to his own private
concerns, or to have made any mention of the inheritance.” I hear, O Lucius
Lucullus, that very great inheritances came to you, to you who are about to decide as judge on
the case of Lucius Flaccus, on account of your exceeding liberality and of the great services
which you had done your friends, during the time that you were governing the province of Asia
with consular power. If any one had said that those inheritances belonged to him, would you
have given them up? You, O Titus Vettius, if any inheritance in Africa comes to you, will you
abandon it? or, will you retain it as your own, without being liable to the imputation of
avarice, without any sacrifice of your dignity? “But the possession of the
inheritance of which we are speaking was demanded in the name of Flaccus, when Globulus was
praetor.” Well then, it was not any sudden violence, nor the idea of any favourable
opportunity, nor force, nor any peculiarity of time, nor the possession of command and of the
forces which induced Flaccus to commit this injury.
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