previous next  [43] I wish I had not mentioned them. Now he will
boast, and have a fine ride on these horses. “I bought them, I
have paid the money for them.” I have no doubt account books
also will be produced. It is well worth while. Give me then the
account-books. You are at liberty to get rid of this charge
respecting Calidius, as long as I can get a sight of these
accounts; still, if you had bought them, what ground had
Calidius for complaining at Rome, that, though he had been
living so many years in Sicily as a trader, you were the only
person who had so despised and so insulted him, as to plunder
him in common with all the rest of the Sicilians? what ground
had he for declaring that he would demand his plate back again
from you, if he had sold it to you of his own free will?
Moreover, how could you avoid restoring it to Cnaeus Calidius;
especially when he was such an intimate friend of Lucius
Sisenna, your defender, and as you had restored their property
to the other friends of Sisenna?  Creative Comm