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I come now to the evidence of the people of Dorylaeum, who, when they were brought into
court said that they had lost their public documents near some caverns. O the shepherds (I
know not who they were), the literary shepherds! if they took nothing from those men except
the letters! But we suspect that there is some other reason, and that we should not think
those men quite destitute of all cunning. There is, I imagine, a heavier penalty at Dorylaeum
than among other people, for forging or tampering with written documents. If they had produced
the genuine letters, there was no accusation in them; if they produced forged ones, there was
a penalty for such an act. They thought the finest thing they could do was to say that they
were lost.
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