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There
was one man, his relation, his partner, his intimate friend, Sextus Naevius, who, though
he himself was in reality in debt to him, as if some extraordinary prize of wickedness
was proposed to him, strove with the greatest eagerness to deprive his own relation,
oppressed and ruined by his means, not only of property which he had honestly acquired,
but even of that light which is common to all men. Where were the rest of the creditors?
Even now at this very time where are they? Who is there who says he kept out of the way
for the sake of fraud? Who is there who denies that Quinctius was defended in his
absence?
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