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lastly, him who acknowledged no law,
no civil rights, no boundaries to any man's
possessions,—who sought to obtain other people's estates, not by
actions at law and false accusations, not by unjust claims and false oaths,
but by camps, by an army, by regular standards and all the pomp of
war,—who, by means of arms and soldiers, endeavoured to drive from
their possessions, not only the Etrurians, for he thoroughly despised them,
but even this Publius Varius, that most gallant man and most virtuous
citizen, one of our judges,—who went into many other people's
villas and grounds with architects and surveyors, who limited his hopes of
acquiring possessions by Janiculum and the Alps; him who, when he was unable
to prevail on an estimable and gallant Roman knight, Marcus Paconius, to
sell him his villa on the Prelian Lake, suddenly conveyed timber, and lime,
and mortar, and tools in boats to the island, and while the owner of the
island was looking at him from the opposite bank, did not hesitate to build
a house on another man's land; who said to Titus Furfanius—O ye
immortal gods, what a man!
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