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The whole of the thirty-five tribes will believe a most honourable and accomplished
man, Marcus Annius, who said, that when he was present, a Roman citizen perished by
the hand of the executioner. That most admirable man Lucius Flavius, a Roman knight,
will be listened to by the Roman people, who gave in evidence that his intimate
friend Herennius, a merchant from Africa,
though more than a hundred Roman citizens at Syracuse knew him, and defended him in tears, was put to death by the
executioner. Lucius Suetius, a man endowed with every accomplishment, speaks to them
with an honesty and authority and conscientious veracity which they must trust; and
he said on his oath before you that many Roman citizens had been most cruelly put to
death, with every circumstance of violence, in his stone-quarries. When I am
conducting this cause for the sake of the Roman people from this rostrum, I have no
fear that either any violence can be able to save him from the votes of the Roman
people, or that any labour undertaken by me in my aedileship can be considered more
honourable or more acceptable by the Roman people.
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