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But he is his own rival; his object is always to outdo his last
crime by some new wickedness. I had said that Phalargus the Centuripan was made an
exception by Cleomenes, because he had sailed in his quadrireme. Still because that
young man was alarmed, as he saw that his case was identical with that of those men
who had been put to death, though perfectly innocent; Timarchides came to him, and
tells him that he is in no danger at all of being put to death, but warns him to
take care lest he should be sentenced to be scourged. To make my story short, you
heard the young man himself say, that because of his fear of being scourged he paid
money to Timarchides.
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