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Do not fancy, O judges, that the impudence of cheats and repudiators is not one and the same
in all places. This man did the very same things which debtors here are in the habit of doing.
He denied that he had ever borrowed any money at all at Rome. He asserted that he had actually
never heard the name of the Fufii; and he attacked Hermippus himself, a most modest and
virtuous man, an ancient friend and hereditary connection of my own, the most eminent and
accomplished man in his city, with every sort of reproach and abuse. But after this voluble
gentleman had delivered himself in that fashion with a prodigious rapidity of eloquence for
some time, all of a sudden, when the evidence of the Fufii and the items of their claim were
read, though a most audacious man, he got alarmed; through a most talkative one, he became
dumb. Therefore, the judges at the first trial gave a decision against him, in a matter which
certainly did not admit of much doubt. As he did not comply with their decision, he was given
up to Hermippus and put in prison by him.
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