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I need not say any more about matters in which the custom is so
notorious; but I ask you this, which is very material to the question, How long ago is
it, O Fannius, that you made this entry in your memoranda? He blushes; he does not know
what to answer; he is at a loss for anything to invent off-hand. “It is two
months ago,” you will say; yet it ought to have been copied into the
account-book of money received and paid. “It is more than six
months.” Why then is it left so long in the memorandum-book? What if it is
more than three years ago? How is it that, when every one else who makes up
account-books transfers his accounts every month almost into his books you allow this
sum to remain among your memoranda more than three years?
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