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O most
infamous of men, why did you do so great an injury to Publius Annius after death?
Why did you cause such indelible grief to his ashes and bones, as to take from his
children the property of their father given to then? by the will of their father in
accordance with the law and with the statutes, and to give them to whomsoever you
pleased? Shall the praetor be able, when we are dead, to take away our property and
our fortunes from those to whom we give them while alive? He says, “I will
neither give any right of petition, nor possession.” Will you, then, take
away from a young girl her purple-bordered robe? Will you take away, not only the
ornaments of her fortune, but those also denoting her noble birth? Do we marvel that
the citizens of Lampsacus flew to arms
against that man? Do we marvel that when he was leaving his province, he fled
secretly from Syracuse as if we were
as indignant at what happens to others as at our own injury there would not be a
relic of that man left to appear in the forum.
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