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Moreover they inform me also of this, that they had passed the
vote of panegyric in such a form that all men might see that it was not a panegyric,
but rather a satire, to remind every one of his shameful and disastrous praetorship.
For in truth it was drawn up in these words. “Because he had scourged no
one.” From which you are to understand, that he had caused most noble and
innocent men to be executed. “Because he had administered the affairs of
the province with vigilance,” when all his vigils were well known to have
been devoted to debauchery and adultery; moreover, there was this clause added,
which the defendant could never venture to produce, and the accuser would never
cease to dwell upon; “Because Verres had kept all pirates at a distance
from the island of Sicily;” men
who in his time had entered even into the “island” of Syracuse.
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