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Africanus, who declares by his surname that he subdued a
third part of the whole world, still, if a case of his own were being tried, would not
give evidence. For I do not venture to say with respect to such a man as that, if he did
give evidence he would not be believed. See now everything is altered and changed for
the worse. When there is a trial about property and about murder, a man is going to give
evidence, who is both a broker and an assassin; that is, he who is himself the purchaser
and possessor of that very property about which the trial is taking place, and who
contrived the murder of the man whose death is being inquired into.
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