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Oh how correct was the augury diffused
by common report and common conversation among the people in that province! when
from his very name men augured in a jesting way what he would do in the province.
Indeed, who could doubt, when they recollected his flight and robbery in his
quaestorship—when they considered his spoliation of temples and shrines in
his lieutenancy—when they saw in the forum the plunder of his
praetorship—what sort of man he was likely to prove in the fourth act of
his villainy?
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