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Originally this Carpinatius, before he had
become so intimate with Verres, had often written letters to the shareholders about
his unjust actions. But Canuleius, who had an agency at Syracuse, in the harbour, had also written
accounts to his shareholders of many of Verres's robberies, giving instances,
especially, concerning things which had been exported from Syracuse without paying the harbour dues. But
the same company was farming both the harbour dues and the taxes on pasture land.
And thus it happened that there were many things which we could state and produce
against Verres from the letters of that company.
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