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See now the consistency of the praetor, and of that praetor who, now being on his
trial, is not defended as a tolerable praetor, but is extolled as an admirable
general. While a war of slaves was dreaded, he released condemned slaves from the
same punishment which he inflicted on their masters who were not condemned. He threw
into prison, under pretence of a servile war, without a trial, Apollonius, a most
wealthy man, who if the runaway slaves had kindled a war in Sicily would have lost a most magnificent fortune:
the slaves whom he himself, with the agreement of his assessors, decided had
conspired together for the purpose of war, those, without the consent of his
assessors, of his own accord, he released from all punishment.
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