My wife's freedman --- you know the one --- it seemed to me the other day, from what he was letting fall in his calculations, that he has been juggling the accounts in the matter of the purchase of the holdings of… that you may understand. One man, presumably.
Cicero's full circumlocutory Greek about a freedman's suspicious book-keeping
Source: Cicero, Ad Atticum (Greek code)
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Etymology
An extended Greek paraphrase substituting for a sensitive Latin complaint.