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I will not defend the cause of Apollonius, my own friend and
connection, lest I should seem to be rescinding, our decision; I will say nothing of
the economy, of the virtue, of the industry of the man; I will even pass over that
which I have mentioned before, that his fortune was invested in such a manner, in
slaves, in cattle, in country houses, in money out at loan, that there was no man to
whom it would be more injurious for there to be any disturbance or war in Sicily; I will not even say this, that if Apollonius
were ever so much in fault, still an honourable man of a most honourable city ought
not to have been so severely punished without a trial.
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