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Is not Sthenius the man, he who when he had very easily obtained all the honourable
offices in his city, executed them with the greatest splendor, and
magnificence?—who decorated a town, not itself of the first rank, with
most spacious places of public resort, and most splendid monuments, at his own
expense?—on account of whose good services towards the state of Thermae,
and towards all the Sicilians, a brazen tablet was set up in the senate-house at
Thermae; in which mention was made of his services, and engraved at the public
expense?—which tablet was torn down under your government, and is now
brought hither by me, that all may know the honour in which he was held among his
countrymen, and his preeminent dignity.
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