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These are but light crimes
in such a criminal as this. A naval captain of a most noble city ransoms himself
from the danger of being scourged with a bribe—it was a human weakness.
Another gave money to save himself from being condemned—it is a common
thing. The Roman people does not wish Verres to be prosecuted on obsolete
accusations; it demands new charges against him; it requires something which it has
not heard before; it thinks that it is not a praetor of Sicily, but some most cruel
tyrant that is being brought before the court.
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