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But if it were
any one of your children who did it, he is called your agent; not that every one is, or is
called our agent, who is employed in the transaction of some of our business, but because in
this matter, where the intention of the interdict was clearly ascertained, they did not think
it worth while to examine too curiously into the exact applicability of every word. For the
principles of equity are not different in the case of one servant from what they are in the
case of many; there is no different law for this single case, according to whether it was your
agent who drove me away,—such a man as is legitimately considered the agent of one
who is not in Italy, who is absent on business of the
state, being for the time a sort of matter, that is, a deputy possessing the rights of
another, or whether it was one of your labourers, or neighbours, or clients, or
freedmen,—or any one else who committed that violence and wrought that expulsion at
your request, or in your name.
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