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But to such a degree was
he alarmed, that he would rather have died than have let Sulla be informed of these
things. These old-fashioned men, who judged of others by their own nature, when he
pledged himself to have the name of Sextus Roscius removed from the lists of
proscription, and to give up the farms unoccupied to his son, and when Titus Roscius
Capito, who was one of the ten deputies, added his promise that it should be so,
believed him; they returned to Ameria
without presenting their petition. And at first those fellows began every day to put the
matter off and to procrastinate; then they began to be more indifferent; to do nothing
and to trifle with them; at last, as was easily perceived, they began to contrive plots
against the life of this Sextus Roscius, and to think that they could no longer keep
possession of another man's property while the owner was alive.
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