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As all were of this
opinion, and as every one spoke in this tenor, as his own feelings and indignation
prompted each individual, all immediately proceeded towards the house where Verres
was staying. They began to beat the door with stones, to attack it with weapons, to
surround it with wood and faggots, and to apply fire to it. Then the Roman citizens
who were dwelling as traders at Lampsacus
run together to the spot; they entreat the citizens of Lampsacus to allow the name of the lieutenancy to have more weight
with them than the insult of the lieutenant; they say that they were well aware that
he was an infamous and wicked man, but as he had not accomplished what he had
attempted, and as he was not going to be at Lampsacus any longer, their error in sparing a wicked man would be
less than that of not sparing a lieutenant.
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