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You have plundered the
Sicilians, for indeed the provincials are accustomed to obtain no revenge amid their
wrongs. You have harassed the brokers, for they seldom come to Rome, and never of their own accord. You gave up a
Roman knight to the ill-treatment of Apronius. To be sure; for what harm can they do
you now, when they cannot be judges? What will you say when you treat senators also
with the greatest violence? what else can you say but this, “Give me up
that senator also, in order that the most honourable name of senator may appear to
exist not only to excite the envy of the ignorant, but also to attract the insults
of the worthless.”
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