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Where then shall I begin rather than with that city which was above all others in
your affection, and which was your chosen place of enjoyment? or with what class of
men rather than with your flatterers? For by that means it will be the more easily
seen how you behaved among those men who hate you, who accuse you, who will not let
you rest, when you are proved to have plundered among the Mamertines, who are your
friends, in the most infamous manner.
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