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Why need I tell you how many
men he has scourged? I will only say that, most briefly, O judges, while that man
was praetor there was no discrimination whatever in the infliction of that sort of
punishment; and, accordingly, the hands of the lictor were habitually laid on the
persons of the Roman citizens, even without any actual order from Verres.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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