Quid enim putemus suspicari, qui rogetur de patrimonio sumptus faciendos committere gratiae petentis, nisi praedae conpendiique eius causa iudicet faciundum?
For what do we think will be suspected by a man who is asked to entrust expenditure at his own cost to the pleasure of the petitioner? Will he not judge that it is to be done for the profit and advantage of the other man?
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