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Therefore he began to instigate the men to create some danger for Sthenius, and to
invent some accusation against him. They said they had nothing to allege against
him. On this he openly declared to them, and promised to them that they might prove
whatever they pleased against Sthenius if they only laid the information before him.
So they do not delay. They immediately bring Sthenius before him; they say that the
public documents have been tampered with by him. Sthenius demands, that as his own
fellow-citizens are prosecuting him on a charge of tampering with the public
documents, and as there is a right of action on such a charge according to the laws
of the Thermitani since the senate and people of Rome had restored to the Thermitani their city, and their territory
and their laws, because they had always remained faithful and friendly; and since
Publius Rupilius had afterwards, in obedience to a degree of the senate, given laws
to the Sicilinus, acting with the advice of ten commissioners, according to which
the citizens were to use their own laws in their actions with one another; and singe
Verres himself had the same regulation contained in his edict;—on all
these accounts, I say, he claims of Verres to refer the matter to their own laws.
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