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What then?
“This you had no right to touch.” Presently I will see to that; but first
of all I will deal with this. A dignified, a wealthy, a noble city complains that it is not
allowed to retain what does not belong to it. It says that it has been plundered, because it
has not in its possession what never was its own. What can be said or imagined more shameless
than this? A town was selected in which, above all others, the money contributed by all Asia
for the honours of Lucius Flaccus should be deposited. All this money was transferred from the
purpose of doing him honour, and employed in gainful traffic and usury. Many years afterwards
it was recovered.
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