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he hired a retired Treasury bookkeeper to teach him how the tribuni aerarii who headed that domain did their accounting, and he ground away at what did not come at all naturally until he knew as much about State finances as Caesar knew, unaware that what cost him so much pain had been taken in almost instantly by his avowed enemy.
Er engagierte einen ehemaligen Buchhalter des Schatzamts, damit er ihm beibrachte, wie die tribuni aerarii ihre Bücher führten, und da ihm das alles nicht in den Schoß fiel, mußte er lange büffeln, bis er soviel über die Staatsfinanzen wußte wie Caesar, ohne allerdings zu ahnen, wie schnell sein erklärter Feind begriffen hatte, was er selbst sich so hart erarbeiten mußte.
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