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He says that he gave it as a contribution from Aulus
Sextilius, and from his own brothers. Sextilius was able to give such a sum; as for his own
brothers, they are partners in his beggary. Let us then hear what Sextilius says; then let his
brothers themselves come forward; let them lie as shamelessly as they please, and let them say
that they gave what they never possessed; still, perhaps, when they are produced face to face
with us, they will say something in which they may be detected. “I have not brought
Sextilius with me as a witness,” says he. Give me the accounts then. “I
have not brought them down.” At least produce your brothers. “I never
summoned them.” Are we then to fear as an accusation or as a piece of evidence, what
Asclepiades by himself affirms, a man needy as to fortune, infamous as to character, condemned
by every one's opinion, relying on his own impudence and audacity, without any account-books
or any one to support his evidence?
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