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Or, as it is written in this same decree, that the most illustrious
men of the city,—men who had had the highest honours of the state conferred on
them,—were circumvented by him while he was praetor, why are they not present in
court or why, at all events, are they not named in the decree? For I do not suppose that
Heraclides, who is pricking up his head, is the person here intended. For is he one of the
most eminent of the citizens, when Hermippus brought him here for trial? a man who did not
even receive his present commission to come on this deputation from his fellow-citizens by
their voluntary choice, but who went all the way from Tmolus to solicit it? a man on whom no
honour was ever conferred in his own city; and the only business which ever has been entrusted
to him, is one which is usually entrusted to the most insignificant people. He, in the
praetorship of Titus Autidius, was appointed guardian of the public corn. And when he had
received money from Publius Varinius the praetor for this purpose, he concealed it from his
fellow-citizens, and charged the whole of the expense to them. And after this was made known
and revealed at Temnos, by letters which were sent thither by Publius Varinius, and when
Cnaeus Lentulus, he who was the censor, the patron of the people of Temnos, had sent letters
on the same subject, no one ever afterwards saw that man Heraclides at Temnos.
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