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On that day nothing could be
done, because it was so late, and because his father had found men to waste the time
in speaking. Afterwards the elder Verres goes to all the defenders and connections
of Sthenius; he begs and entreats them not to attack his son, not to be anxious
about Sthenius; he assures them that he will take care that he suffers no injury by
means of his son; that with that object he will send trustworthy men into Sicily both by sea and land. And it wanted now about
thirty days of the first of December, on which day he had ordered Sthenius to appear
at Syracuse.
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