He says that he gave it as a contribution from
 Aulus Sextilius, and from his own brothers. Sextilius was able to give such a sum; as for his
 own brothers, they are partners in his beggary. Let us then hear what Sextilius says; then let
 his brothers themselves come forward; let them lie as shamelessly as they please, and let them
 say that they gave what they never possessed; still, perhaps, when they are produced face to
 face with us, they will say something in which they may be detected. “I have not brought
 Sextilius with me as a witness,” says he. Give me the accounts then. “I have not brought them
 down.” At least produce your brothers. “I never summoned them.” Are we then to fear as an
 accusation or as a piece of evidence, what Asclepiades by himself affirms, a man needy as to
 fortune, infamous as to character, condemned by every one's opinion, relying on his own
 impudence and audacity, without any account-books or any one to support his evidence? He also said that the panegyric which we mentioned as having been given
 by the men of Aemon to Flaccus, is false; a panegyric, says he, which we ought to be glad to be
 without. For when that admirable representative of his city beheld the public seal, he said that
 his own fellow-citizens and all the rest of the Greeks were accustomed to seal at the moment
 whatever required it. Then take that panegyric to yourself. For the life and character of
 Flaccus do not depend on the evidence of the citizens of Aemon. For you grant to me, (an
 admission which this cause especially requires,) that there is no authority, no consistency, no
 firm wisdom in the Greeks, and, above all, no proper regard to truth in giving their evidence;
 unless, indeed, henceforward there is to be this distinction made between the evidence and your
 speech, that the cities are to be said to have allowed something to Flaccus when absent but are
 to appear to have neither written nor sealed anything suited to the occasion, so as to save
 Laelius, though he was present, though he himself undertook the management of the business
 himself, and though he alarmed them and threatened them, availing himself of the power of the
 law, of the privileges of a prosecutor, and of all his own private resources.