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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Plutarch's Lives by A. H. Clough: government, and the commonwealth was in some kind of settlement.
At this time, Chrysogonus, Sylla's emancipated slave, having
laid an information about an estate belonging to one who was
said to have been put to death by proscription, had bought it
himself for two thousand drachmas. And when Roscius, the son
and heir of the dead, complained, and demonstrated the estate to
be worth two hundred and fifty talents, Sylla took it angrily to
have his actions questioned, and preferred a process against
Roscius for the murder of his father, Chrysogonus managing the
evidence. None of the advocates durst assist him, but fearing
the cruelty of Sylla, avoided the cause. The young man, being
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