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Do you imagine that we have inquired in only a cursory manner into the
disgraces incurred during your command, and into the losses suffered by the
province? We have investigated them, not tracking your footsteps merely by
scent but marking every wriggle of your body, and every seat where you have
left your print. Everything has been noted by us, both the very first crimes
which you committed on your arrival, when, having received money from the
people of Dyrrachium for the murder
of Plato; who was connected with you by ties of hospitality, you destroyed the house of the man to whose murder you had sold yourself:
when, after you had accepted from him some musical slave and other presents,
he was still alarmed and hesitated a good deal, you assured him with
promises, and desired him to come to Thessalonica on the security of your good faith.
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