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For he, as a rhetorician,
had some rich men for pupils whom he was going to make as foolish again as they were when they
came to him, (for they could acquire nothing from him, except an ignorance of every sort of
learning;) but he could not infatuate any one to such an extent as to get him to lend him a
single farthing. Therefore, having left Rome secretly, and cheated numbers of people by
trifling loans, he came into Asia; and when Hermippus asked him what he had done about the
bond given to the Fufii, he said that he paid the entire sum to the Fufii. In the mean time,
not long afterwards, a freedman comes to Hermippus with letters from the Fufii. The money is
demanded of Hermippus. Hermippus demands it of Heraclides; however, he himself satisfies the
claim of the Fufii who are at a distance, and discharges the security which he had given. He
then prosecutes Heraclides, in spite of all his fuming and shuffling, in a formal manner: the
cause is tried before judges.
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