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But now do
you suppose that brazen couches and brazen candelabra were made at Syracuse for any
one but for him the whole of that three years? He bought them, I suppose; but I am
informing you so fully, O judges, of what that man did in his province as praetor,
that he may not by chance appear to any one to have been careless, and not to have
provided and adorned himself sufficiently when he had absolute power.
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