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In the meantime Titus Roscius, excellent
man, the agent of Chrysogonus, comes to Ameria; he enters on this man's farm; turns this miserable man,
overwhelmed with grief, who had not yet performed all the ceremonies of his father's
funeral, naked out of his house, and drives him headlong from his paternal hearth and
household gods; he himself becomes the owner of abundant wealth. He who had been in
great poverty when he had only his own property, became, as is usual, insolent when in
possession of the property of another; he carried many things openly off to his own
house; he removed still more privily; he gave no little abundantly and extravagantly to
his assistants; the rest he sold at a regular auction.
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