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or did he
write at your entreaty? But do you put no questions to Marcus Aebutius, a most sensible and
virtuous man, a relation of Falcidius? Do you decline to examine Caius Manilius his
son-in-law, a man of equal integrity? men who certainly must have heard something of so large
a sum of money, if it had been given. Did you, O Decianus, think that you were going to prove
so heavy a charge, by reading these letters, and bringing forward these women, while the
author whom you were quoting was kept at a distance? Especially when you yourself, by not
producing Falcidius, declared your own opinion that a forged letter would have more weight
than the feigned voice and simulated indignation of the man himself if present.
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