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This one thing, I think,
all may observe, that up to this time you had no opportunity of becoming known to any
people except to the Sicilians; and that the Sicilians say this, that even though they
are exasperated against the same man, whose enemy you say that you are, still, if you
are the advocate, they will not appear on the trial. Why they refuse to, you will not
hear from me. Allow these judges to suspect what it is inevitable that they must. The
Sicilians, indeed, being a race of men over-acute, and too much inclined to
suspiciousness, suspect that you do not wish to bring documents from Sicily against Verres; but, as both his praetorship and
your quaestorship are recorded in the same documents, they suspect that you wish to
remove 1 them out of Sicily.
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