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This
enormous sum of money, given to you out of a poor and exhausted treasury; given to
you for corn,—that is to say, for what was necessary for the safety and
life of the citizens; given to you to be paid to the Sicilian cultivators of the
soil, on whom the republic was imposing such great burdens;—this great
sum, I say, was so handled by you, that I can prove, if I choose, that you
appropriated the whole of this money, and that it all went to your own house. In
fact, you managed the whole affair in such a way that this which I say can be proved
to the most impartial judge. But I will have a regard for my own authority, I will
recollect with what feelings, with what intentions I have undertaken the advocacy of
this public cause. I will not deal with you in the spirit of an accuser; I will
invent nothing; I do not wish any one to take for proved, while I am speaking,
anything of which I myself do not already feel thoroughly convinced.
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