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quid ais, bone custos defensorque provinciae?
tu quos servos arma capere et bellum facere in
Sicilia voluisse cognoras et de consili sententia iudicaras,
hos ad supplicium iam more maiorum traditos1 ex media
morte eripere ac liberare ausus es, ut, quam damnatis
crucem servis fixeras, hanc indemnatis videlicet civibus
Romanis reservares? perditae civitates desperatis iam
omnibus rebus hos solent exitus exitialis habere, ut damnati
in integrum restituantur, vincti solvantur, exsules
reducantur, res iudicatae rescindantur. quae cum accidunt,
nemo est quin intellegat ruere illam rem publicam haec ubi
eveniant2; nemo est qui ullam spem salutis reliquam esse
arbitretur.
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