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You heard all these things, O judges, all
which I now pass by and leave unnoticed. I say nothing of the luxury of Apronius,
nothing of his insolence, nothing of his unexampled profligacy and wickedness; I
will only speak of the gain and profit made out of one district in one year, so that
you may the more easily be able to form your conjectures of the whole three years
and of the whole of Sicily; but I do not
mean to say much about the people of Aetna,
for they have come hither themselves, they have brought with them their public
documents; they have proved to you what gains were made by that honest man, the
intimate friend of the praetor, Apronius. I pray of you learn this from their own
testimony. Read the testimony of the people of Aetna. [The testimony of the people of Aetna is read.]
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