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“But he had no right to lay hands on that money.” Had his father Flaccus
a right to touch it or not? If he had a right, as he undoubtedly had, to take money which had
been contributed for the purposes of his honours, then the son did right in taking away the
money belonging to his father from those men from whom he on his own account took nothing; but
if the father Flaccus had not a right to take it, still after his death, not only his son, but
any heir, must have had a perfect right to take it. And at that time, indeed, the Trallians,
as they themselves had been for many years putting out that money at high interest
nevertheless obtained from Flaccus all that they desired; nor were they so shameless as to
venture to say what Laelius said,—namely, that Mithridates had taken this money from
them. For who was there who did not know that Mithridates was more anxious about adorning
Tralles than plundering it?
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