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And that no one may have any doubt as to the real nature of the whole transaction,
although I feel sure that by this time that man's rascality is pretty evident to you
all, still listen yet a little longer. Do you see that man with curly hair, of a
dark complexion, who is looking at us with such a countenance as shows that he seems
to himself a very clever fellow? him, I mean, who has the papers in his
hand—who is writing—who is prompting him—who is next
to him. That is Caius Claudius, who in Sicily was considered Verres's agent and interpreter, the manager of
all his dirty work, a sort of colleague to Timarchides. Now he is promoted so high
that he scarcely seems to yield to Apronius in intimacy with him; indeed he called
himself the colleague and ally not of Timarchides, but of Verres himself.
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