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Be it so. He adopted a false opinion about them, and a very injurious one about
you. But while he deserved so ill of the Sicilians, at least, I suppose, he was
attentive to the Roman citizens; he favoured them; he was wholly devoted to securing
their good-will and favour? He attentive to the Roman citizens? There were no men to
whom he was more severe or more hostile. I say nothing of chains, of imprisonment,
of scourgings, of executions. I say nothing even of that cross which he wished to be
a witness to the Roman citizens of his humanity and benevolence to them. I say
nothing, I say, of all this, and I put all this off to another opportunity. I am
speaking about the tenths,—about the condition of the Roman citizens in
their allotments; and how they were treated you heard from themselves. They have
told you that their property was taken from them.
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