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He dealt largely in the stock of the tax-companies; he lent money to cities in several provinces; he lent money to Ptolemy Auletes, King of Egypt, both before he was expelled from his kingdom by sedition, and afterwards when he was in Rome in 59 and 58, intriguing to induce the senate to have him restored.
They were continually beset by urgent appeals on behalf of the tax-companies and their agents appeals made without a thought of the condition of a province or its tax-paying capacity so completely had the idea of making money taken possession of the Roman mind.
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