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Is
there any one of all these circumstances invented by me, O Decianus? —All the nobles
know these facts—virtuous men are acquainted with them—our own citizens
are acquainted with them—all the merchants of ordinary consequence are acquainted
with them. Rise, Amyntas: demand back from Decianus, not your money, not your estates; let him
even keep your mother-in-law for himself; but let him restore your wife, let him restore the
daughter to her miserable father: for the limbs which he has weakened with stones, with
sticks, with weapons, the hands which he has crushed, the fingers which he has broken, the
sinews which he has cut through, those he cannot restore. The daughter,—restore the
daughter, I say, O Decianus, to her unhappy father.
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