Such is the beginning. Let us see what follows. Quintus Roscius has cheated Fannius of
 50,000 sesterces . On what account? Saturius smiles; a
 cunning fellow, as he seems to himself. He says, for the sake of the fifty thousand
 sesterces . I see; but yet I ask why he was so exceedingly
 desirous of this particular fifty thousand sesterces ? For
 certainly, O Marcus Perperna and Caius Piso, they would not have been of such
 consequence to either of you, as to make you cheat your partner. I ask, then, why they
 were of such consequence to Roscius! Was he in want of money? No, he was even a rich
 man. Was he in debt? On the contrary, he was living within his income. Was he
 avaricious? far from it; even before he was a rich man he was always most liberal and
 munificent.