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A man of the name of Letilius had come
to him two days before, a man not unversed in literature, so he constantly used him
as his secretary. He had brought him many letters, and, among them, one from home
which had changed the whole man. On a sudden he began to say that he wished to do
everything to please Verres; that he was connected with him by the ties of both
friendship and relationship. All men wondered that this should now at last have
occurred to him, after he had injured him by so many actions and so many decisions.
Some thought that Letilius had come as an ambassador from Verres, to put him in mind
of their mutual interests, their friendship, and their relationship. From that time
he began to solicit the cities for testimony in favour of Verres, and not only to
try to deter the witnesses against him by threats, but even to detain them by force.
And if I had not by my arrival checked his endeavours in some degree, and striven
among the Sicilians, by the help of Glabrio's letters and of the law, I should not
have been able to bring so many witnesses into this court.
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