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Do you think that you are able to distinguish in separate charges,
and in a well-arranged speech, all that Caius Verres has done in his quaestorship, and
in his lieutenancy, and in his praetorship, at Rome, or in Italy, or in
Achaia, or in Asia Minor, or in Pamphylia, as
the actions themselves are divided by place and time? Do you think that you are able
(and this is especially necessary against a defendant of this sort) to cause the things
which he has done licentiously, or wickedly, or tyrannically, to appear just as bitter
and scandalous to those who hear of them, as they did appear to those who felt them?
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