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From all these
things did Apollonius after a long time ransom himself, when he was worn out with
suffering and misery; but still he taught the rest to meet that man's wickedness and
avarice beforehand. Unless you think that a wealthy man was selected for so
incredible an accusation without any object of gain; or that, again, he was on a
sudden released from prison without any corresponding reason; or that this method of
plundering was used and tried in the case of that man alone, and that terror was
not, by means of his example, held out to and struck into every rich man in
Sicily.
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