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After this, O Dolabella, no one can pity either
you or your children, whom you have left miserable, in beggary and solitude. Was
Verres so dear to you, that you should wish the disappointment of his lust to be
expiated by the blood of innocent men? Did you leave your army and the enemy, in
order by your own power and cruelty to diminish the dangers of that most wicked man?
For, had you expected him to be an everlasting friend to you, because you had
appointed him to act as your quaestor? Did you not know, that Cnaeus Carbo, the
consul whose real quaestor he had been, had not only been deserted by him, but had
also been deprived of his resources and his money, and nefariously attacked and
betrayed by him? Therefore, you too experienced his perfidy when he joined your
enemies,—when he, himself a most guilty man, gave most damaging evidence
against you—when he refused to give in his accounts to the treasury unless
you were condemned. 1
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