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Now since it is made clear beyond a doubt to
every one, in what state your case is, and what will become of you, I will deal thus
with you: I will prove that that Gavius whom you all of a sudden assert to have been
a spy, had been confined by you in the stone-quarries at Syracuse; and I will prove that, not only by
the registers of the Syracusans,—lest you should be able to say that,
because there is a man named Gavius mentioned in those documents, I have invented
this charge, and picked out this name so as to be able to say that this is the
man,—but in accordance with your own choice I will produce witnesses, who
will state that that identical man was thrown by you into the stone-quarries at
Syracuse. I will produce, also,
citizens of Cosa, his fellow citizens and
relations,, who shall teach you, though it is too late, and who shall also teach the
judges, (for it is not too late for them to know them,) that that Publius Gavius
whom you crucified was a Roman citizen, and a citizen of the municipality of
Cosa, not a spy of runaway slaves.
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