<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text xml:lang="eng"><body><div type="translation" xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0474.phi003.perseus-eng2"><div type="textpart" subtype="section" n="38" resp="perseus"><p>What can you get from Flavius, if Flavius owes you nothing?
            Moreover, why does he now enter into a mutual engagement about a sum which he has
            already exacted some time ago? But what can Flavius be going to give you, if he has
            already paid Roscius everything that he owed? Why is this new mutual arrangement
            interposed in so old an affair, in a matter so entirely settled, in a partnership which
            has been dissolved? Who is the drawer up of this agreement? who is the witness? who is
            the arbitrator? who? You, O <persName><surname>Piso</surname></persName>: for you
            begged Quintus Roscius to give Fannius fifteen thousand <foreign xml:lang="lat">sesterces</foreign>, for his care, for his labour, for having been his agent, and for
            having given security, on this condition, that, if he get anything from Flavius, he
            should give half of that sum to Roscius. Does not that agreement seem to show you with
            sufficient clearness that Roscius settled the affair on his own behalf alone?</p></div></div></body></text></TEI>