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Where are the seven hundred millions of sesterces which were entered in the
account-books which are in the temple of Ops? a sum lamentable indeed, as to the
means by which it was procured, but still one which, if it were not restored to
those to whom it belonged, might save us from taxes. And how was it, that when
you owed forty millions of sesterces on the fifteenth of March, you had ceased
to owe them by the first of April? Those things are quite countless which were
purchased of different people, not without your knowledge; but there was one
excellent decree posted up in the Capitol affecting king Deiotarus, a most
devoted friend to the Roman people. And when that decree was posted up, there
was no one who, amid all his indignation, could restrain his laughter.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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