I think that no one of you, O judges, is ignorant that for these many days the
discourse of the populace, and the opinion of the Roman people, has been that Caius
Verres would not appear a second time before the bench to reply to my charges, and
would not again present himself in court; And this idea had not got about merely
because he had deliberately determined and resolved not to appear, but because no
one believed that any one would be so audacious, so frantic, and so impudent, as,
after having been convicted of such nefarious crimes, and by so many witnesses, to
venture to present himself to the eyes of the judges, or to show his face to the
Roman people.
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