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On this all the Sicilians, our most faithful and most
ancient allies, who have had the greatest kindnesses conferred on them by our
ancestors, were greatly agitated, and alarmed at their own danger, and at the peril
of all their fortunes. That that noted clemency and mildness of our dominion should
have been changed into such cruelty and inhumanity! That so many men should be
condemned at one time for no crime! That that infamous praetor should seek for a
defence for his own robberies by the most shameful murder of innocent men! Nothing,
O judges, appears possible to be added to such wickedness, insanity, and
barbarity—and it is true that nothing can; for if it be compared with the
iniquity of other men it will greatly surpass it all.
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