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What sort of accusation, then, is this, O Triarius? First of all, that you did not go to
examine into it. What was the meaning of the fierce and positive confidence that you had as to
trusting this man? It seems to me that when we were children we heard that Lucius Aelius, a
freedman, a well-educated and witty man, when he was avenging injuries sustained by his
patron, instituted a prosecution against Quintus Multo, a very mean man. And when he was asked
what province he required to conduct his investigation in, or how many days he would want to
collect his witnesses in, he asked till eight o'clock, during which time he might prosecute
his investigation in the cattle-market.
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