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Now at this time of peril to your order and to your tribunals, when men are ready
to attempt by harangues, and by the proposal of new laws, to increase the existing
unpopularity of the senate, Caius Verres is brought to trial as a criminal, a man
condemned in the opinion of every one by his life and actions, but acquitted by the
enormousness of his wealth according to his own hope and boast. I, O judges, have
undertaken this cause as prosecutor with the greatest good wishes and expectation on
the part of the Roman people, not in order to increase the unpopularity of the
senate, but to relieve it from the discredit which I share with it. For I have
brought before you a man, by acting justly in whose case you have an opportunity of
retrieving the lost credit of your judicial proceedings, of regaining your credit
with the Roman people, and of giving satisfaction to foreign nations; a man, the
embezzler of the public funds, the petty tyrant of Asia and Pamphylia, the
robber who deprived the city of its rights, the disgrace and ruin of the province of
Sicily.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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