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I have now been recounting to you, O judges, the species
of countless injuries which he has wrought,—one of each sort. An infinite
host of evil actions I pass over. Place before your own eyes, keep in your minds,
these invasions by collectors of the whole of Sicily, their plunderings of the cultivators of the soil, the
harshness of this man, the absolute reign of Apronius. He despised the Sicilians; he
did not consider them as men, he thought that they would not be vigorous in avenging
themselves, and that you would treat their oppression lightly.
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